Title
Quantitative exploratory analysis of the variation in hemoglobin between the third trimester of pregnancy and postpartum in a vulnerable population in VRAEM-Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Science and Information Organization
Abstract
The study is based on determining the difference in hemoglobin in the third trimester of pregnancy and the immediate puerperium of childbirths attended at the Hospital de Apoyo San Francisco, during 2018, located in the VRAEM area, a vulnerable area due to the level of poverty and exposure of the area. The type of the research was observational, retrospective longitudinal section in related samples, the study has the descriptive level, it has a sample of 107 childbirths, 55 vaginal and 52 cesarean, the documentary review technique was used, the data was analyzed with the statistical program "R" for data analysis, the non-parametric test Wilcoxon was used. Results: a difference of 1.52 g/dl has been found between hemoglobin of the third trimester of pregnancy 11.89 g/dl and immediate puerperium 10.37 g/dl; when analyzing the difference in vaginal childbirths, hemoglobin in the third trimester was found at 11.90 g/dl and the immediate puerperium was 10.65 g/dl, and in cesarean childbirths was 11.94 g/dl in the third trimester of pregnancy and 10.14 g/dl in the immediate puerperium, finding differences of 1.52 g/dl in vaginal childbirths and 1.8 g/dl in cesarean. Conclusion, there is a significant difference in hemoglobin in the third trimester and postpartum at a p-value of 0.05, being higher in cesarean childbirths; the average postpartum hemoglobin denotes anemia despite the fact that the blood losses were within normal parameters, which indicates that it must achieve that the pregnant women reach the third trimester of pregnancy with at least 13 g/dl of hemoglobin.
Start page
518
End page
524
Volume
11
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Epidemiología Obstetricia, Ginecología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85085291870
Source
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
ISSN of the container
2158107X
Sponsor(s)
We want to thank the Universidad Nacional de Huancavelica (UNH) and the Hospital de Apoyo "San Francisco" for their support in this research.
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