Abstract
With a huge gap of knowledge and understanding created by the current pandemic especially in regards to maternal health, this research aimed to compare and analyze the correlation between pregnancy-related complication with delivery complication in an urban public health center before and during the pandemic. This is an analytic comparative study utilizing retrospective cohort approach. Medical records of pregnant women during 2019-2020 were obtained from Pagesangan public health center with approved ethics from Mataram University and related government agencies. Collected data were then analyzed for each year and then compared between 2019 and 2020 to see if there any significant differences between maternal health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical records of 653 pregnant women were collected in this study. 22 of 311 and 27 of 342 pregnancy-related complications were recorded in 2019 and 2020, respectively. While 68 of 311 and 70 of 342 delivery complications were recoded in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Analysis was done to obtain the relative risk (RR) of each year and then we compared the obtained RR of both year. In 2019, the RR of pregnany-related complication to delivery complication was 0,398 (95% CI 0,104-1,518) while in 2020 the obtained RR was 0,522 (95% CI 0,176-1,550). Pregnancy-related complications were not the risk factor of delivery complications in both year. However, a significant correlation was found between maternal age and pregnancy-related complication in 2020 while in 2019, gravidity was also found significantly related with delivery complications.