TY - JOUR JF - IJN JO - IJN VL - 12 IS - 18 PY - 1998 Y1 - 1998/11/01 TI - Out come in first pregnancies of different .age groups TT - بررسی و مقایسه نتایج حاصل از بارداری در نخست حامله‌های سنین مختلف مراجعه کننده به بیمارستانهای آموزشی شهر کرمان(1372) N2 -   A Survey was conducted to correlate the out come in first pregnancies of different age groups attending a selected teaching hospital in Kerman for delivery during 1993.   A total of 390 primigravida women took part in this study. 150 in each age group of below 20 and 20-29 years and 90 women in the age group of 30 or above.   For data collection a check list and questionnaire consisting of two parts were employed. The first part covered demographic information of the subjects and the second part questioned the pregnancy out come in all age groups mentioned above.   The findings are presented in 55 tables. Both descriptive and infernal statistics were used. To correlate variables like occupation, place of residence, level of education and prenatal care initiation with the outcome of pregnancy, X2 and Fisher tests were employed. To estimate differences in pregnancy outcome among primigravida women of different age groups with demographic variables Cochran test was employed.   The findings show that the majority of the subjects falls in 15-19 years of age. They work, education level is secondary school and they started to attend prenatal care units during the first trimester of pregnancy. Although the pregnancy outcome has been with no complications for most of them, miscarriage, premature first and low birth weight deliveries were noticed in this group more than the other two, the 20-29 years age group encountered the least complications.   The findings also revealed a significant correlation between undesirable outcome like r miscarriage and pre-term delivery with level of education and the time of prenatal Care initiation among the subjects below 20 years (P SP - 24 EP - 30 AU - Cohan M, AD - UR - http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1397-en.html ER -