Relationship Between Parity with Neonatal Asphyxia in Wangaya General Regional Hospital Denpasar

Background: Asphyxia is still the third lead cause of neonates mortality according to World Health Organization (WHO). There are some risk factors of asphyxia, one of them is the mother�s parity. Objective: To investigate the relationship between parity and neonatal asphyxia at Wangaya General Hospital. Methods: A case control study was conducted from January 2019 to April 2019 by using the consecutive sampling methods with gestational age as the matching variable. The subjects were inpatient babies at Perinatology ward and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) who was born at Wangaya Hospital. The data of this study were collected from medical report. Will be done the bivariate analysis with McNemar using SPSS 24 for Macbook. Result: Among 86 subjects who are 43 subjects in each group study. Bivariate analysis show that parity was significantly correlates with neonatal asphyxia (p value 0.005; CI 95 % 0.224; OR 3.28) in neonates at Wangaya Hospital. Conclusion: There is a relationship between parity with neonatal asphyxia at Wangaya Hospital. The risk of asphyxia will be 3.28 times greater at a risky parity (primipara and grandemultipara) than a parity without risk (multipara).