Determinants of Neonatal Jaundice among Neonates Admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Public General Hospitals of Central Zone, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, 2019: a Case-Control Study

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of the neonates and their mothers in public general hospitals of central zone, Tigray, 2019.

Variables	Category	Controls ()	Cases ()	Total ()
Age of mothers	Mean (±SD)	28.91 (±6.497)	29.25 (±6.764)
Residence	Urban	119 (65.7%)	57 (62.6%)	176 (64.7%)
	Rural	62 (34.3%)	34 (37.4%)	96 (35.3%)
Ethnicity	Tigray	162 (89.5%)	85 (93.4%)	247 (90.8%)
	Amara	19 (10.5%)	6 (6.6%)	25 (9.2%)
Sex of neonates	Male	116 (64.1%)	57 (62.6%)	173 (63.6%)
	Female	65 (35.9%)	34 (37.4%)	99 (36.4%)
Age of neonates at admission in days	Median (±IQR)	2 (±2)	2 (±2)
Maternal age	≤19	4 (2.2%)	8 (8.8%)	12 (4.4%)
	20-34	141 (77.9%)	60 (65.9)	201 (73.9%)
	35-49	36 (19.9%)	23 (25.3%)	59 (21.7%)