RELATED FACTORS TO SEPSIS NEONATORUM FOR NEWBORN IN HOSPITAL

Abstract

Background: The occurrence of infection in newborn babies may cause death if left untreated. Sepsis neonatorum is one of the neonatal infection diseases that remain unsolved as WHO also report a high case fatality rate of 40% due to sepsis neonatorum. In most cases, sepsis neonatorum was undetected so it led to death. Based on The Indonesia Demography and Healthy Survey data in 2013 mention that the number of the death baby reach 32 and 40 per 1000 of the number of birth.

Aims:  The purpose of the research is to describe the factors of Sepsis Neonatorum that is happened earlier such as age of the mother, kind of birth, the mother’s disease history, the antenatal care, the gestational age.

Material & Method: Design study is descriptive.The reseach is a documentation study and the method applied is by gaining the sample called total sampling. The subject of the research is 80 baby that diagnose sepsis neonatorum  at The Government Hospital Dr. M. Jamil, Padang . The research begin on february till july 2017. The instrument that is used is observation sheet.

Results:   Age of mothers are  less than 20 years old  and more than 35 years old risk ( 58,8 % ),the kind of birth or baby born with certain actions (45%), the mother’s disease history (63,8%), the antenatal care insufficiently (53,8%), baby with low birth weigh (47,5%)  and the premature baby (53,8%).

Conclusion:  The mother’s disease history is the most common cause of sepsis in infants in hospital. Suggestion for the medical is to higher  the efort of preventive by giving the education related to the  mother’s factors of the sepsis neonatorum.