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dc.contributor.authorNakawunde, Patricia Martha
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-22T14:12:27Z
dc.date.available2022-04-22T14:12:27Z
dc.date.issued2022-04
dc.identifier.citationNakawunde, P. M. (2022). Violence during pregnancy and child birth weight in Uganda. Unpublished undergraduate dissertation, Makerere Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/11860
dc.descriptionA dissertation submitted to the School of Statistics and Planning in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Science in Population Studies of Makerere Universityen_US
dc.description.abstractPhysical violence and baby birth weight can be related to child outcome indirectly or directly. Direct consequences of domestic violence during pregnancy include the premature rapturing of the uterine membranes, infections that arise due to forced sexual relations with their partners, placenta damages and contractions and also abdominal traumas This study used secondary data among women in Uganda extracted from UDHS, 2016. Data was analyzed using StataSE-15 (64bit) and analysis was done at two levels. Univariate analysis was done to describe respondent`s background characteristics and bivariate was done to determine the association between low birth weight and each of the independent variable using fixed p-value 0.05. In accordance to the findings, wealth index, smoking, education levels and blood pressure during pregnancy were not associated with low birth weight in Uganda (p>0.05) and other factors like mothers’ age were associated with low birth weight in Uganda (p<0.005). The government should look further into incidences of low birth weights in order to combat the issues that lead to low birth weights.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMakerere Universityen_US
dc.subjectViolenceen_US
dc.subjectFamily violenceen_US
dc.subjectDomestic violenceen_US
dc.subjectChild birth weighten_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.subjectPregnant womenen_US
dc.subjectPregnancyen_US
dc.titleViolence during pregnancy and child birth weight in Ugandaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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