TABLE 1.
Socio-demographic and obstetric characteristics of women undergoing surgical fistula repair at Gitega Fistula Centre, central Burundi, April 2010–December 2011
| Variable | n (%) |
| Total | 475 |
| Age, years | |
| <15 | 0 |
| 15–29 | 192 (40) |
| 30–39 | 140 (29) |
| ≥40 | 142 (30) |
| Unknown | 1 (0.2) |
| Median [IQR] | 31 [25–40] |
| Marital status | |
| Single | 57 (12) |
| Married | 259 (55) |
| Separated | 108 (23) |
| Widow | 48 (9) |
| Unknown | 3 (0.6) |
| Occupation | |
| Peasant | 472 (99) |
| Employed | 0 |
| Business | 3 (0.6) |
| Geographical distribution | |
| Urban | 7 (1) |
| Rural | 468 (99) |
| Parity | |
| 1 birth | 214 (45) |
| 2 births | 74 (16) |
| ≥3 births | 187 (39) |
| Site of causal delivery* | |
| Home | 72 (15) |
| Health centre | 72 (15) |
| Hospital | 327 (69) |
| Unknown | 4 (1) |
| Mode of causal delivery | |
| Vaginal | 256 (54) |
| Caesarean section | 209 (44) |
| Not recorded | 10 (2) |
| Neonatal outcome of causal delivery | |
| Alive | 120 (25) |
| Stillborn | 351 (74) |
| Not recorded | 4 (1) |
| Type of obstetric fistula | |
| VVF | 412 (87) |
| RVF | 43 (9) |
| VVF and RVF | 19 (4) |
| Not recorded | 1 (0) |
*
Delivery associated with the fistula.
IQR = interquartile range; VVF = vesico-vaginal fistula; RVF = recto-vaginal fistula.