[Epidemiologic profile of the newborn of unmarried mother in Bizerta. About 187 cases].
The aim of this study is to establish the epidemiologic profile of 187 illegitimatepregnancies compared topregnancies from married mothers.


METHODS
A transversal retrospective study was carried out in Bizerta from 1990 to 2003. The witness group was constitued by women whose gonna delivery at the same period with p < 0.05.


RESULTS
Throughout this study, we have found that single mothers with a mean age of 24 years, are younger than married mothers and has a rural origin and primiparous status. Pregnancy was not followed-up in 70.6% vs. 1.6% and maternal serology was done in 17% vs. 96.8%. 38.4% of new-borns of single mothers were hospitalised (vs. 13.2% in the group witness) for materno-foetal infection (14.4%), respiratory distress syndrome (11.7%), prematurity (9.6%) and intra-uterine growth delay (2.1%). The mortality rate in newborns of single mothers was 5.3%.


CONCLUSIONS
Illegitimate pregnancy is not well followed-up, worst to live and comport a risk for the health and mental in mothers and newborns.
Boujemaa
Zied
Z
Service de pédiatrie, hôpital régional de Bizerte.
Aoun
Saida
S
Hammami
Olfa
O
Chebbi
Yasser
Y
Zaghbib
A
A
Gandoura
Najoie
N
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D005317:Fetal Growth Retardation / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007086:Illegitimacy; D007226:Infant Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D008423:Maternal Age; D009035:Mothers; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D011295:Prenatal Care; D012127:Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population; D015406:Single Parent; D014416:Tunisia / Q000453:epidemiology