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Yacila, C., Guevara, S. (2022). Asociación entre embarazo no deseado y búsqueda de atención por infección respiratoria aguda para hijos menores de 25 meses. Perú 2015 – 2019 [Tesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)]. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/667423
Yacila, C., Guevara, S. Asociación entre embarazo no deseado y búsqueda de atención por infección respiratoria aguda para hijos menores de 25 meses. Perú 2015 – 2019 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC); 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/667423
@misc{renati/404567,
title = "Asociación entre embarazo no deseado y búsqueda de atención por infección respiratoria aguda para hijos menores de 25 meses. Perú 2015 – 2019",
author = "Guevara García, Saulo Mauricio",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)",
year = "2022"
}
Background: unwanted pregnancy has an impact on maternal health regarding behavior during pregnancy, postnatal period, and childcare. Objective: The objective in this study was to identify the association between unwanted pregnancy and seeking for medical attention in acute respiratory infections for children below 25 months of age. Methods: This was an analytic transversal secondary source study obtained from the Familiar Demographic and Health Survey (ENDES) from Perú between 2015 and 2019. Fertile women with children below 25 months of age who presented cough, fever, shallow breathing, chest problems only and/or chest and nose problems in the last 14 days were selected. Only the last-born child was considered. Unwanted marriage was defined as a stage in which the woman did not want to have one more child regarding her last pregnancy. Seeking for medical attention in acute respiratory infection was defined as a positive response in the survey when asked if the mother looked for medical attention when the child presented fever or cough in a medical center. To assess the association between unwanted pregnancy and search for medical attention for acute respiratory infections we used a generalized lineal model and the Log Poisson function to present the results as prevalence ratios. Crude and adjusted models were calculated. Results: The crude analysis identified that mothers that had an unwanted pregnancy were 3% less likely to seek medical attention for acute respiratory infection in their children; however, this association was not significant (PRc 0.97, IC 95% 0.91; 1.05 p=0.558). When assessed in the adjusted model for socioeconomic status, residence area, mother age, marital status, mother language, insurance type, number of children, breastfeeding, child age in months, child sex, vaccinations, and the number of child controls, we identified that mothers with unwanted pregnancies were 4% more likely to seek medical attention for their child. This association however was yet not significant (PRa 1.04, IC 95% 0.96; 1.12 p=0.271). Conclusions: In this study the authors did not find a true association between unwanted pregnancies and seeking for health care for acute respiratory infections in children of less than 25 months of age. The prevalence observed in this study of mother that did not seek medical attention for acute respiratory infections was 16.9% and the prevalence for unwanted pregnancies was 22.43%.
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