1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology, SP Medical College & Associate Group of PBM Hospital, Bikaner, Rajasthan
2Medical Officer, Dept. Psychiatry, SP Medical College & Associate Group of PBM Hospital, Bikaner, Rajasthan
*Corresponding Author: Email: girishdrbaniya@gmail.com
Online published on 20 June, 2017.
Teenage pregnancy is widely recognized as one of the most complex and serious social, economic and health problems throughout the world. Teenage pregnancy is a high risk pregnancy. Outcome is less satisfactory than that of a pregnancy in general population.
To find out the incidence of teenage pregnancy, to study the maternal and fetal outcome in teenage pregnancy and to compare the outcome of teenage pregnancy with that of 20–26 years of an adult mother.
It is a prospective case-control study. 150 cases of teenage pregnancy (13–19 years) were compared with 150 cases of controls (20–26 years) for fetal outcome. After randomization, assessment of Sociodemographic details was done with the help of semi-structured performa.
The proposed study was conducted in phased manner observing ethics of voluntary participation and informed consent of the participants were taken.
the mean age of teenage mother and adult mother was 18.25 and 22.78 years respectively. Our study showed that preterm delivery was higher in teenage mothers (20%) as compared to adult mothers (6%). The incidence of LSCS was significantly more in teenage mothers (28.67%) as compared to the adult mothers (15.3%). There was a higher proportion of low birth weight in teenage mothers (31.33%) as compared to adult mothers (14.67%). Birth asphyxia is a most common complication and seen in 11.3% of cases.
Teenage mother, Adult Mother Neonatal complication, Pregnancy
