@article{Poudel_Rai_Subedi_2019, title={Teenage Pregnancy Outcome in Rapti Sub Regional Hospital}, volume={14}, url={https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/NJOG/article/view/26629}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To determine the maternal and perinatal outcome in teenage pregnancies. </p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>A hospital based descriptive cross sectional study conducted from April 2017 to April 2018, among the pregnant women of age group≤19 years, admitted to the labour ward  atRapti Sub regional Hospital, Dang.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong>The total of 853 pregnant adolescent women were admitted during the study period, most of which belonged to 19 years of age (38.6%) and were primipara (93.3%) and 42.1% belonged to janjati group. 79.6% had normal delivery, while 14.1% of the cases underwent caesarean section, 5.9% had instrumental delivery and in 0.5% had perineal injury. Anaemia complicated 63% of teenage mothers, more in age group of ≤ 18yrs than in > 18years (61.4%vs 38.6%) and 4.6% had maternal complications, the majority being PPH (2.9%) followed by oligohydraminos, eclampsia, wound infection and vulvar haematoma. Preterm delivery occurred in 15.5% of the cases (≤ 18yrs vs>18yrs being 9.8% vs 5.7%), other neonatal complications included respiratory distress (1.5%), intrauterine growth retardation (4.5%), intrauterine foetal death (0.4%) and very low birth weight (1.2%).</p> <p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Teenage pregnancy has increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes leading to various adverse maternal, fetal and neonatal complications.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> outcome, pregnancy, teenage.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Nepal Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology}, author={Poudel, Sandesh and Rai, Snigdha and Subedi, Kirtipal}, year={2019}, month={Dec.}, pages={52–55} }