Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of mothers and neonates admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit at Dilla University Referral Hospital in Gedeo Zone, Southern, Ethiopia, 2020
Variables | The outcome of the neonates | |
|---|---|---|
Case = 76(%) | Control = 228(%) | |
Maternal age | ||
< 20 years | 22 (28.9) | 60 (26.3) |
20–34 years | 46 (60.5) | 148 (64.9) |
≥ 35 years | 8 (10.6) | 20 (8.8) |
Age of neonates | ||
< 7 days | 55 (72.4) | 126(55.3) |
≥ 7 days | 21 (27.6) | 102 (44.7) |
Marital status | ||
Married | 61 (80.2) | 197 (86.4) |
Single | 7 (9.2) | 18 (8.0) |
Widowed | 3 (3.9) | 4 (1.7) |
Divorced | 5 (6.7) | 9 (3.9) |