Abstract:
Background: Pregnancy-induced hypertension is causing striking maternal, fetal and neonatal
mortality and morbidity both in developed and developing countries. Even though there are many
studies done elsewhere in the globe, there is limited data on pregnancy induced hypertension
disorders and its associated factor in resource poor countries like Ethiopian including the study
area.
Objective: To determine the prevalence and associated factors of pregnancy induced
hypertension disorder among women delivered in Gelemso General Hospital, Oromia Regional
State, Eastern Ethiopia.
Methods: Institutional based document review retrospective “cross-sectional “study design was
conducted on 765 selected women who delivered at Gelemso General Hospital in five years.
Systematic sampling technique was used to select the study participants. The collected data were
entered, using Epi Data 3.02 exported and analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Science
version 22. Bivariate and multivariate analysis were employed to assess the relationship between
independent variables and dependent variable. Odds ratio along with 95% CI was estimated to
identify factors associated with the outcome variable. The Level of significance was declared at
P-value ≤ 0.05.
Result: Out of 708 study participants, 70 (9.9%) had confirmed pregnancy induced hypertension disorder.
From those 35 (50%) were sever preeclampsia, 16 (22.9%) were eclampsia, 11(15.7%) were mild
preeclampsia, 4(5.7%) gestational hypertension and 4(5.7%) super imposed preeclampsia. Having multiple
pregnancy [AOR=4,95%CI: (1.82,8.78)], pervious history of hypertension [ AOR=3.6,95% CI:
(1.25,10.36)], rural residence [AOR=2.3,95% CI:(1.22, 4.33)] ,being nullity parity [AOR=2.5 , 95% CI
:(1.13, 5.57) and age less than or equal to 20 years of age [ AOR=3.8,95% CI: (1.36,10.57) were statically
and significantly associated with pregnancy induced hypertension disorders.
Conclusion: Nearly ten percent of women deliverd at Gelemso General Hospital were developed
pregnancy induced hypertension disorder. However, it was more common among women who had multiple
pregnancy, pervious history of hypertension, rural residence, nulliparous and age less than or equal to 20
year.
