Association between Services of Antenatal Care and Health Complications among Mother and Newborn in Ranya District

Background: globally maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity identified as public health burden for this reason according to recommendation WHO 2016 guideline providing new model of antenatal care with adequate quality and number visits is responsible to decrease this risk among pregnant women and their neonates.   
Objectives: objective of this study was to identify association between of antenatal care services with pregnancy outcome health status.
Methodology: this study employed quantitative design retrospective cohort study performed in Rania pediatric and maternal teaching hospital and 207 cases were collected. Questionnaire was consisted of demographic profile, antenatal care, maternal and neonatal health status information was constructed to collect data through interview technique face to face approach from 6 Jun to 7 July, a descriptive statistic used to assess frequency and percentage, inferential statistic chi square test applied to detect association between variables, the data analysis was done through statistical package for social science of software (SPSS V25).                                                                              
Results: Results revealed that 99% of samples attended to antenatal care clinics, 80.6% initiated first visit in the first trimester and 69.6% performed 4 - 8 visits, moreover 47.8 % samples identified as perceived adequate care during pregnancy, and 50.7% mostly adequate care. Furthermore results illustrate that There was statistically significant association between Services of antenatal care and newborn health status (P = 0.029), however there was no significant association with mother health (P = 0.191).    
Conclusion: pregnant woman’s awareness to attended antenatal clinics and services of ANC slightly high in this area so mothers with mostly adequate care had composed high proportion with no complication after delivery.