@article{ref1,
title="Obstetric outcome in pregnant women subjected to domestic violence",
journal="Nigerian journal of clinical practice",
year="2009",
author="Ameh, N. and Shittu, S. O. and Abdul, M. A.",
volume="12",
number="2",
pages="179-181",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of domestic violence and its relationship to adverse obstetric outcomes amongst pregnant women who deliver at a tertiary level hospital in Zaria, Nigeria. METHOD: A cross-sectional study involving 310 women who delivered at the labour ward. Questionnaires were administered to parturient women. Details of their socio-demographic characteristics and obstetric outcome were compiled and the relationship to experiences of domestic violence studied. RESULTS: The prevalence of domestic violence was 28.4%. There was positive relationship between domestic violence during pregnancy, non-supervision of pregnancy and poor attendances to antenatal clinic (p<0.05). There was however, no statistically significant relationship between domestic violence, and complications of labour and neonatal outcome (p>0.05). CONCLUSION: The prevalence of domestic violence in pregnancy is high in this environment. Poor attendances to the antenatal clinic is a significant association.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1119-3077",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}