The prevalence of severe maternal morbidity and near miss and associated factors in Sergipe, Northeast Brazil

Table 3 Sociodemographic profile showing the distribution of cases of Severe Acute Maternal Morbidity/Near Miss (SAMM, NM) and controls in the reference maternity wards

Sociodemographic Variables	SAMM (n = 1102) n % or mean ± SD		NM (n = 77) n % or mean ± SD		Controls (n = 151) n % or mean ± SD		p value
Provenance							0.001
Home	400	43.1	31	47	88	58
Health service	527	56.9	35	53	63	42
Age							0.068
Until 35 years	800	82	51	73.9	131	86.8
≥ 35 years	176	18	18	26.1	20	13.2
Years of education ^¥							0.414
Until 8 years	523	56.9	37	58.7	76	51.4
≥8 years	396	43.1	26	41.3	72	48.6
Marital status							0.191
Not married	166	17.8	14	21.5	19	12.6
Married	768	82.2	51	78.5	132	87.4
Work							0.898
No	643	69.2	45	69.2	101	67.3
Yes	286	30.8	20	30.8	49	32.7
Monthly income ^#							0.002
Until US$300	532	58.3	36	56.2	92	60.9
≥ US$300	380	41.7	28	43.8	59	39.1
Race*							0.934
Not white	777	85.1	54	84.4	130	86.1
White	136	14.9	10	15.6	21	13.9
Head of household							0.211
Other**	371	40.9	28	43.8	51	33.8
Husband	539	59.1	36	56.2	100	66.2
Health plan							0.942^§
Public system	893	95.3	62	95.4	142	94.7
Health insurance	44	4.7	3	4.6	8	5.3
Use of alcohol							0.714
Yes	184	20.2	15	23.4	28	18.5
No	729	79.8	49	76.6	123	81.5
Smoking							0.390
No	65	7.1	7	10.9	14	9.3	0.390
Yes	846	92.9	57	89.1	137	90.7

AV: average; SD: standard deviation; ^¥: Normal distribution (KRUSKAL-WALLIS) tested by ANOVA; ^#values based in a national classification of income (ABEP 2008) [14] *perception of the interviewee; **other: the patient herself or her mother or father. The n value for each variable may differ because some cases and controls were still pregnant or the available data were collected from medical records or the patient did not know the answer. § Fisher exact test. The variables presented in the table were chosen by statistical significance or clinical relevance.

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