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Table 3 Maternal health problems experienced in hospital

From: Revising acute care systems and processes to improve breastfeeding and maternal postnatal health: a pre and post intervention study in one English maternity unit

Health problem

Pre intervention (N = 741)

Post intervention (N = 725)

(95% CI) †

pvalue (adjusted)

Fever/high temperature

116 (15.7)

88 (12.1)

0.789 (0.576, 1.082)

NS

Excessive vaginal bleeding

96 (13)

71 (9.8)

0.808 (0.572, 1.143)

NS

Offensive vaginal loss

28 (3.8)

5 (0.7)

0.187 (0.071, 0.492)

0.001

Severe or persistent headache

27 (3.6)

29 (4.0)

1.156 (0.647, 2.066)

NS

Perineal pain

172 (23.2)

133 (18.3)

0.887 (0.662, 1.187)

NS

Haemorrhoids

90 (12.1)

81 (11.2)

0.933 (0.665, 1.308)

NS

Constipation

148 (20.0)

130 (17.9)

0.818 (0.608, 1.102)

NS

Difficulty passing urine

41 (5.5)

37 (5.1)

1.039 (0.644, 1.677)

NS

Caesarean wound problems

23 (3.1)

22 (3.0)

0.908 (0.460, 1.793)

NS

Backache

135 (18.2)

104 (14.3)

0.766 (0.571, 1.028)

0.076

Mastitis

2 (0.3)

0 (0.0)

not availableǂ

NS

  1. † odds ratio; ǂ model did not converge successfully, p value taken from Fisher's Exact Test.