ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Neonatology
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1524966
Incidence and predictors of mortality among low birth weight neonates admitted to Neonatal intensive care unit in selected public hospitals, North Shoa zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: Multi-center retrospective follow-up study
Provisionally accepted
Leweyehu Alemaw Mengstie*
Mohammed Tessema Gebeyehu
Wegayehu Zeneb
Wondimeneh Shiferaw
Tirusew Nigussie Kebede
Worku Abemie
Bekahegn Girma- Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia
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Birth weight of less than 2,500 grams is the leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality.Various studies in developed and developing countries examine the prevalence and associated factors. However, little is known about low birth weight neonatal incidence and predictors of Mortality in Ethiopia.The study aimed to assess the incidence and predictors of mortality among low birth weight neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit at a public hospital, in Northeast, Ethiopia, 2021.: An institution-based retrospective follow-up study was conducted among 416 lowbirth-weight neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit from January 1, 2019-December 30,2021. Epi-data version 3.1 was used for data entry and Stata14 software for analysis. The Kaplan-Meier survival curve and the Log-rank test were used to estimate the cumulative survival time and compare the probability of survival time among variables. Multivariable and bi-variable Cox proportional hazard model was used to identify predictor variables.
Keywords: low birth weight, Incidence, Survival status, predictors, Ethiopia
Received: 08 Nov 2024; Accepted: 23 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Mengstie, Gebeyehu, Zeneb, Shiferaw, Kebede, Abemie and Girma. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Leweyehu Alemaw Mengstie, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia
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