Abstract: Objectives: To identify the correlation between parity and premature rupture of membrane (PROM) incidence at Government Maternity Hospital, Tirupati in 2022.
Methods: This is a retrospective observational study conducted in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Andhra Pradesh from May 2022 to July 2022. The study population was all pregnant women giving birth at Tertiary Care Hospital from May to July 2022. The samples used in this study were 2965 women who delivered in Tertiary Care Hospital among them patients with PROM 312. The data were secondary data obtained from medical records and then analyzed in univariate and bivariate analysis using a chi-square test with p-value = 0.007.
Results: The incidence of premature rupture of membrane at Tertiary Care Hospital is 10.5%. Incidence in Primi’s is 2.4% and multi para’s is 4.6%.
The research results showed that most PROM incidences occurred in primipara as many as 72 respondents (8.3%), and those who did not experience PROM occurred in multipara were as many as 777 respondents (28.5%). Chi-Square (X2) statistical test obtained p-value = 0.007 so that it can be concluded that there was a correlation between parity and the incidence of premature rupture of membranes in Tertiary Care Centre in Tirupati from May 2022 to July 2022.
Conclusion: Mothers in Tertiary Care Centre, Tirupati mainly were multipara. There is a relationship between parity with the incidence of premature rupture of membranes in Tertiary Care Centre from May 2022 to July 2022 with p value = 0.007. Further research is needed and develop this title by connecting to other variables so that the results obtained will be more comprehensive.
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