TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Obstetric outcome in pregnant women subjected to domestic violence
JO  - Nigerian journal of clinical practice
A1  - Ameh, N.
A1  - Shittu, S. O.
A1  - Abdul, M. A.
SP  - 179
EP  - 181
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1119-3077
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -