A Sociodemographic Analysis of Mothers who Abandoned their Newborn Babies: A Single-Center Study
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Objective: The present study aimed to investigate the sociodemographic characteristics of the mothers who abandoned their babies legitimately in our hospital and to determine the reasons behind the abandonment.
Material and Method: Medical records of the newborn babies who were abandoned in the period between January 2008 and December 2015 in our hospital and of their mothers were reviewed retrospectively for sociodemographic characteristics and reasons behind abandonment. Records were analyzed by using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA, version 20).
Results: Sixty-seven abandoned babies (girls 55.2%) were documented in the specified period and included in the study. The number of abandoned babies was observed to be increasing gradually in years (n=1 in 2008 and n=17 in 2015). Most of the mothers (74.6%) had a low education level (secondary school or less). Of the mothers, 73.1% were unmarried and 62.7% were not working. Pregnancy was due to rape in 28.4% and due to incest in 4.5% of the cases. The primary reasons of abandonment were social reasons (62.7%), among which peer pressure (trying to keep the family members unaware of the pregnancy) was the most frequent (78%). It was observed that the rate of baby abandonment increased as the educational levels of the mothers decreased (p<0.05).
Conclusion: In this study, the primary factor for abandonment was peer pressure. There is certainly a vast need to multiply this kind of studies on baby abandonment. This study could be considered as a preliminary approach providing tips about the reasons of the baby abandonment.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
İç Hastalıkları
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Hüsniye Yücel
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0000-0002-7477-0302
Türkiye
Nihal Demirel
0000-0003-2044-2212
Türkiye
Ahmet Yağmur Baş
0000-0002-1329-2167
Türkiye
Dilek Ulubaş Işık
0000-0001-9937-4624
Türkiye
Ferit Kulalı
0000-0003-0310-1184
Türkiye
Leyla Mollamahmutoğlu
Bu kişi benim
0000-0003-4904-3303
Türkiye
Aysu Duyan Çamurdan
Bu kişi benim
0000-0001-8384-7423
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Mart 2021
Gönderilme Tarihi
4 Kasım 2019
Kabul Tarihi
29 Ocak 2020
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2021 Cilt: 15 Sayı: 2
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