Related factors to sepsis neonatorum for newborn in hospital
Deswita, Febriyanti R T and Sirait N A
Andalas University, Indonesia
: J Womens Health, Issues Care
Abstract
The occurrence of infection in newborn babies may cause death if left untreated. Sepsis neonatorum is one of the neonatal infection diseases that remain unsolved as WHO also report a high case fatality rate of 40% due to sepsis neonatorum. In most cases, sepsis neonatorum was undetected so it led to death. Based on the Indonesia demography and healthy survey data in 2013, it is mention that the number of the death baby reaches to 32 and 40 per 1000 of the number of birth. The purpose of the research is to describe the factors of Sepsis Neonatorum that is happened earlier such as the age of the mother, kind of the birth, the mother’s disease history, the antenatal care, and the gestational age. The research is a documentation study and the method applied is by gaining the sample called total sampling. The subject of the research is 80 babies that diagnose sepsis neonatorum at Government Hospital Dr. M Jamil, Padang. The research begins on February till July 2017. The instrument that is used is observation sheet, Based on the result gained , mother age less than 20 years old and more than 35 years old risk ( 58.8 % ), the kind of birth or baby born with certain actions (45%), the mother’s disease history (63.8%), the antenatal care insufficiently (53.8%), baby with low birth weight (47.5%) and the premature baby (53.8%). Suggestion for the medical is to higher the effort of preventive by giving the education related to the mother’s factors of the sepsis neonatorum.
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