FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH NEONATAL MORTALITY AT KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL BUSHENYI-UGANDA

Abstract

According MDG 4: the mortality rate among children under five was to be reduced by two-thirds by 2015. Unfortunately; it has remained a daydream up to today. A quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study employed convenient purposive sampling was carried in Kampala international university teaching hospital to assess factors associated to neonatal mortality among mothers that had lost a neonate during time of data collection. Young age mothers 19-24 and Prime-parity were associated to neonatal mortality by (26.6%) and (30%) respectively in addition to low levels of education (60%), living in rural areas (83.5%) and poor economic status of mother (66.6%). Maternal factors associated with neonatal mortality included close intervals between pregnancies (53.3%), poor ANC visits where by ∑=66.5 had visited