Infant jaundice epidemiology investigation: Case study: Meybod and Ardakan in Yazd province; Iran

Jaundice is one of the most common neonate diseases on the first days of birth, caused by hyperbilirubinaemia of blood; and if it is failed to be controlled, it may lead to kernicterus and probable death, or severe neurotic defeats. The purpose of this study is an investigation on different reasons of neonate jaundice, including physical and environmental reasons. Methodology: Method of this study is descriptive and the participants of the research are all the neonates below 30 days, brought to one of the clinics in Meybod and Ardakan in Yazd province. Sampling method is randomly selected and sample size is 98. Information about participants age, sex, child health condition in birth, jaundice case history in child´s life, his parents, sisters, brothers, type of childbearing, family economical situation, educational level of parents, the time of disease affection (month, season and year) and other general variations were recorded using a questionnaire, prepared for this purpose. Data analysis was done through V-Cramer, chi square test and CART model. The CART model with the accuracy of 73% revealed that three variations namely, jaundice case history in other children, child sex and the time of disease affection have meaningful relationship with the topic under investigation. Conclusion: Infant jaundice has relationship with child sex and jaundice case history in family, while no meaningful relation was observed between jaundice and parent´s disease case history. The rate of Jaundice affection in summer is observed to be more than that in winter causing accidents to happen.