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Four groups of mothers and their infants were studied in an urban hospital, all with known risk status for neonatal mortality or morbidity: normal neonates (48 subjects) were a no or minimum risk group; the still borns (21 subjscts) were at maximum risk for perinatal mortality; the population of the infant program (44 subjects) were handicapped at birth or at medium or high risk for future handicapping conditions. It was assumed that these four groups would differ significantly for a number of variables which assess social, economic and health characteristics of the mothers and health characteristics of the infants.
Data were extracted from the records of the infant program and the medical charts, and submitted to multivariate analysis, including discriminant function analysis.
The population of the study was found to be, as a result of the analysis, mainly homogeneous for social and economic characteristics but showed variability for health indicators. The health characteristics of the mothers that appeared to be significant predictors for membership in the four risk groups, were associated with the history of prior pregnancies and prenatal care. For the infants, gestational age and Apgar score at one and five minutes were predictors.
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Molnar, E., Headings, V., Rahbar, F. et al. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE SOCIOECONOMIC AND HEALTH PROFILE OF PARTIDIPANTS IN A HANDICAPPED INFANTS' PROGRAM WITH PERINATAL DEATHS AND WITH NORMAL NEONATES IN AN URBAN HOSPITAL. Pediatr Res 18 (Suppl 4), 109 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198404001-00099
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