ABSTRACT

Sri Yun Utama. Factors Related to Heavy Preeclampsia in Pregnant Women at

Raden Mattaher Hospital, Jambi, 2007.

The purpose of this thesis is to know all factors related to heavy preeclampsia on
pregnant women in Raden Mattaher, Jambi. Those factors are age, gravid status, age of
pregnancy, medical history and mother’s educational background.
This is an analytical research with case-control study design. The populations are
pregnant women with heavy preeclampsia hospitalized in midwifery unit (case) and
normal pregnant women visited midwifery clinic in Raden Mattaher hospital, Jambi.
Samples were taken with simple random sampling method using secondary data from
medical record and being analyzed with univariate and bivariate.
The results of this research show that most of mothers with heavy preeclampsia
are between 20-35 years old (60,4%), have gravid status 2 to 4 (46,2 %), with age of
pregnancy ≥28 weeks (94,5%), and only small part of them (23,1%) have medical history
(such as preeclampsia or heavy preeclampsia, hypertensive, obesity and diabetes
mellitus) and 44% of mother with heavy preeclampsia only graduated from elementary
school. There is an important relation between mother’s age, age of pregnancy, medical
history and educational background with heavy preeclampsia and there is no significant
relation between gravid status with heavy preeclampsia in Raden Mattaher hospital,
Jambi, 2007.
From these findings we can make a conclusion that there are a lot of factors
influencing heavy preeclampsia; therefore the employees of Raden Mattaher hospital,
Jambi, primarily of its midwifery clinic should try to improve their health care services
especially in treating mothers with heavy preeclampsia and to make a constant
procedures so they can do early detection of its risk factors in order to minimize the
severeness and complication. It is very important also for the hospital employees in
general to improve the quality of their antenatal care based on SOP in treating mothers
both with risk factor or not because a regular antenatal examination is very important to
prevent preeclampsia and to reduce maternal death rate.