1Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Subharti Medical College Meerut, Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, UP
2Assistant Professor (Medical Sociology), Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, UP
3Assistant Professor, (Biostatistics), Subharti Medical College Meerut, Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, UP
Online published on 14 October, 2016.
weight of the baby at birth is considered to be a major determinant of future health and survival of the child. Many maternal socio-economic factors influence birth weight of newborn.
To find out the socio-economic factors affecting birth weight of newborn among Muslim women.
A total 150 study subject recently delivered mothers and data was collected on semi-structured interview schedule to know various variables such as mother's age, education, occupation, socio-economic status, and use of fuel in kitchen influencing the low birth weight of newborn. Chi-Square test and Z-test applied to observe the significance of association.
The overall proportion of LBW came out to be 34.00%. Factors which came out to be statistically significant were education, occupation, socio-economic status. The factors which were not statistically significant were age of mother, type of family and use of fuel in kitchen.
It was concluded that illiteracy, lower social class, occupation, and use of wood for cooking in kitchen are unfavorable predictors of birth weight of newborn babies.
Socio-economic factors, LBW, Mother's age, education, occupation, use fuel in kitchen
