Medical records were reviewed by trained staff using
pre-established and pilot data extraction forms. The
records of women who had PROM during the study period
were retrieved and data extracted. Information sort were
socio-demographic characteristics (maternal age, parity,
occupation, tribe and gestational age), birth weight, Apgar
scores at 1st and 5th minutes, need for neonatal
resuscitation and admission to new born special care unit
(NBSCU), fetal outcome, maternal complications which
could be reasonably be assumed to have resulted from
PROM such as postpartum endometritis, disseminated
intravascular coagulopathy, maternal sepsis and Asherman
syndrome.
The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics using
the statistical package for social science version 12 (SPSS
Inc. Chicago, IL, USA) and the results express