Table 2:
Distribution of socio-demographic and maternal factors among stillbirths and live-births
| Characteristics | Stillbirths (cases) N=181 |
Live births (Controls) N=181 |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Socio-demographic factors# | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | |
| Age of mother (years) | 26.6 (4.4) | 25.5 (3.7) | 0.01 |
| No. of household members | 4.9 (2.5) | 6.2 (2.9) | < 0.001 |
| Social capital score | 39.0 (7.8) | 40.8 (8.0) | 0.037 |
| Maternal factors* | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Place of delivery | 0.002 | ||
| Home delivery/On the way to hospital | 14 (5.5) | 12 (5.0) | |
| Medical college (MC) | 24 (13.3) | 6 (3.3) | |
| Hospitals other than MC | 143 (79.0) | 163 (90.0) | |
| Mode of delivery | < 0.001 | ||
| Caesarean section | 6 (3.3) | 35 (19.3) | |
| Vaginal | 175 (96.7) | 146 (80.7) | |
| Labour initiation | < 0.001 | ||
| Spontaneous | 81 (44.8) | 105 (58.0) | |
| Induced | 95 (52.4) | 56 (31.0) | |
| Don’t know | 5 (2.8) | 20 (11.0) | |
| Colour of liquor | < 0.001 | ||
| Clear | 52 (28.7) | 91 (50.3) | |
| Green or light brown | 49 (27.1) | 36 (19.9) | |
| Others/ Don’t know | 80 (44.2) | 54 (29.8) | |
| Sex of foetus | 0.005 | ||
| Male | 76 (42.0) | 103 (56.9) | |
| Female | 103 (56.9) | 78 (43.1) | |
| Don’t know | 2 (1.1) | 0 | |
| Gestational age | < 0.001 | ||
| ≥ 37 weeks | 70 (38.7) | 147 (81.2) | |
| ≤ 36 weeks | 111 (61.3) | 34 (18.8) |
p value determined by # t-test and * chi-square or fisher’s exact test