December 2018

Determinants of antenatal care booking among pregnant women in selected hospitals in Embu county, Kenya

In Embu County, pregnant mothers begin attending antenatal care (ANC) clinics late in third trimester. According to World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, pregnant mothers should start their ANC in the first trimester before sixteen weeks of gestation. The study sought to determine factors associated with late booking of the visits. The specific objective were to find out how past pregnancy experience,...

Author(s): Joshua Omwenga Boraya, Caroline Githae and Titus Atandi  

December 2018

Success of labour induction institution based cross-sectional study Wolaita Sodo, South Ethiopia

There are a number of pregnancy complications that confer significant risk to the mother or fetus. Induction of labour is as an artificial termination of pregnancy utilized to decrease both maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Institution based retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted among 347 pregnant women undergone induction of labour from 2013-2015 in Otona referral hospital. Nearly 207 (59.7%)...

Author(s): Eyasu Tamru Bekru and Bezalem Eshetu Yirdaw