Research Article
Incidence and Correlates of Maternal Near Miss in Southeast Iran
Table 2
Baseline and clinical characteristics in near miss and control groups.
| | Variable | Total | Group | value | | Near miss | Control | | ( = 501) | ( = 498) |
| | Age group* (yrs) | | | | | | <18 | 22 | 4 (18.2) | 18 (81.8) | <0.001 | | 18–35 | 978 | 432 (49.1) | 447 (50.9) | | | >35 | 98 | 65 (66.3) | 33 (33.7) | | | Education* | | | | | | ≤Primary | 251 | 127 (50.6) | 124 (49.4) | <0.001 | | Secondary | 576 | 260 (45.1) | 316 (54.9) | | | College | 172 | 114 (66.3) | 58 (33.7) | | | Residence | | | | | | Urban | 789 | 402 (51.0) | 387 (49.0) | 0.327 | | Rural | 210 | 99 (47.1) | 111 (52.9) | | | Type of delivery* | | | | | | Normal vaginal delivery | 501 | 134 (26.7) | 367 (73.3) | <0.001 | | First cesarean delivery | 254 | 189 (74.4) | 65 (25.6) | | | Repeat cesarean delivery | 142 | 84 (59.2) | 58 (40.8) | | | Vaginal birth after cesarean delivery | 1 | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | | | Type of abortion* | | | | | | Medical | 54 | 51 (94.4) | 3 (5.6) | 0.545 | | Surgical | 45 | 40 (88.9) | 5 (11.1) | | | Criminal | 2 | 2 (100) | 0 (0) | | | Gravidity (mean ± SE) | — | 2.3 (0.06) | 2.1 (0.06) | 0.012 | | Parity (mean ± SE) | — | 1.1 (0.06) | 1.0 (0.06) | 0.048 | | Abortion (mean ± SE) | — | 1.2 (0.08) | 1.2 (0.07) | 0.460 | | Living (mean ± SE) | — | 2.3 (0.3) | 1.7 (0.09) | 0.058 | | Birth interval (mean ± SE) | — | 5.3 (0.2) | 4.7 (0.2) | 0.055 | | Gestational age (mean ± SE) | — | 27.7 (0.6) | 34.8 (0.4) | <0.001 | | Number of prenatal care (mean ± SE) | — | 6.4 (0.2) | 6.9 (0.2) | 0.028 |
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Numbers in parentheses are percents.
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