Relación del peso fetal medido por el método clínico de Johnson y Toshach y el peso real al nacer, Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, 2018

Abstract

Background: measuring the height of the uterine fundus is a useful and simple method, which helps prenatal surveillance. Objective: to determine the relationship between the fetal weight measured by Johnson Toshach's method and the real weight at birth in term pregnant women admitted to the Department of Obstetrics Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso during the year 2018. Methodology: descriptive, cross-sectional study. 288 pregnant women who met the inclusion criteria were interviewed, other data were collected from the maternal and pediatric clinical history. The qualitative variables were presented with the frequency and percentage values, the quantitative variables with the mean and DS. The data were tabulated in the SPSS version 15 program, where the Johnson and Toshach method was related to the real weight of the newborn and linear logistic regression was used. Results: the mean age was 24.6 (± 6 SD) years; the most frequent age group were those aged 20 to 24 years old (35.3%); married marital status (42.3%); of secondary education (61.8%). The average gestation was 2 (± 1DS); 17.7% were multiparous with a mean of 39 weeks’ gestation (± 1DS). The average weight for Johnson and Toshach was 3091 (± 0.360DS) grams and for the real weight 3051 (± 0.392DS) grams, there was a statistically significant relationship between these two methods (p 0.000). Conclusions: The Johnson and Toshach method has a significant relationship with the real weight of the newborn in full-term pregnant women without maternal fetal complications.