Research Article
Assessments of Birth Outcome of Twin Delivery and Associated Factors among Newborns in Dessie Referral Hospital, Dessie, Ethiopia, 2019
Table 2
Distribution of obstetric complications, fetal conditions, and intrapartum-related variables, Ethiopia, 2019 (n = 385).
| Variable | Category | Frequency | Percent |
| Membrane status | Normal | 351 | 91.2 | PROM | 34 | 8.8 |
| Parity | Multi | 249 | 64.7 | Primi | 136 | 35.3 |
| ANC history | Following ANC regularly | 369 | 95.8 | Not following ANC | 16 | 4.2 |
| Gestational age at labour | <37 | 32 | 8.3 | 37–42 | 327 | 84.9 | >42 | 26 | 6.8 |
| Prior outcome to index baby | Good | 306 | 79.5 | Adverse | 79 | 20.5 |
| Duration of labour | Normal; prolonged | 313, 72 | 81.3, 18.7 |
| Mode of current delivery | SVD | 247 | 64.2 | Instrumental | 56 | 14.5 | C/S | 82 | 21.3 |
| Maternal complication | Yes | 117 | 30.4 | No | 268 | 69.6 |
| Maternal death | Yes | 1 | 0.3 | No | 384 | 99.7 |
| APH | Yes | 18 | 4.7 | No | 367 | 95.3 |
| PPH | Yes | 11 | 2.9 | No | 374 | 97.1 |
| Neonatal death | Yes | 4 | 1.0 | No | 381 | 99.0 |
| Hypertensive disorder | Yes | 41 | 10.6 | No | 344 | 89.4 |
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