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Correlates Of Birth Weight And Gestation Age : Baseline Data For Health Education, Adanetch Kidanemariam
Correlates Of Birth Weight And Gestation Age : Baseline Data For Health Education, Adanetch Kidanemariam
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Purpose. The study examined the correlation of maternal occupation, urinary tract infection, smoking, and working during pregnancy with infant birth weight and gestational age in order to generate baseline data for development of a health education intervention program protocol for pregnant women In the work place.
Primary Hypotheses. (1) The four maternal risk factors: (a) occupation during lifetime, (b) reported urinary tract infection, (c) cigarette smoking, (d) working, are individually and interactively correlated with infant birth weight and gestational age. (2) The effects of the interactive associations are greater on birth weight than gestational age.
Procedure. A sample of …