VARIABLE | OPERATIONAL VARIABLES | CUT-OFF POINT | INDICATORS | QUESTION NUMBER |
Dependent | 1. Childbirth complications among adolescents | Yes | Mother has any diagnosis of a complication during labour and delivery/post-delivery | 16 - 20 |
No | Mother does not have any diagnosis of a complication during labour and delivery/post-delivery | |||
Independent | 1. Age | >than 19 years | When mother indicate more than 19 years at the time of delivery | 1 |
| When mother indicate more than 19 years at the time of delivery | |||
| 2. Residential area | Rural | Mother indicate code 2 & 3 for rural | 2 |
Urban | Motherindicate code 1 for urban area | |||
| 3. Marital status | Yes | Mothersays she is married | 3 |
No | Mother deny being married | |||
| 4. Level of education | Literate | Motherindicates completion of secondary/college or tertiary qualification at time of delivery for adolescent | 5 - 6 |
Illiterate | Motherdoes not consent to having completed primary, secondary/college/tertiary qualification on never entered school at time of delivery for adolescents | |||
| 5. Antenatal Care | Yes | If mother has 2, 3 visits or more | 7, 8, 10 - 13 |
No | If a mother had No visit or one | |||
| 6. Parity | 1 | Mother indicate one | 9 |
2 | Mother indicate more than two | |||
| 7. Co-morbidities | Yes | When obstetric condition occur with other co-morbidities during intra-partum or post-partum are noted on admission to the labour ward, during labour and at the time of delivery or there after | 27 |
No | When obstetric condition does not occur with co-morbidities on admission to labour ward, during intrapartum or post–partum, at the time of delivery and after delivery |