Background

A wide set of factors can be associated with postpartum perineal tear. Their study and better knowledge contribute to the precise and timely approach of patients.

Objective

to determine the association degree between postpartum perineal obstetric tear and sociodemographic variables in high Andean Peruvian women.

Methods

a descriptive study, with a case-control design, which included 171 mothers with a diagnosis of postpartum perineal tear (case group) and 200 without this pathology (control group), treated at a high Andean health center in Ayacucho, Peru. Sociodemographic and obstetric variables were analyzed. The association between these and perineal tears was estimated using Pearson's Chi-square test (95% CI and statistical significance less than 0.05).

Results

the frequency of eutocic postpartum perineal tears represented 46.1%. Urinary tract infections affected a greater number of women (37.7%). The variables associated with perineal tear were several, with highlights being precipitous labor (OR=10.85; p=0.000) and short intergenic period (OR=5.41; p=0.000).

Conclusion

rapid labor, short intergenesic period and vaginal infections were the variables that were most associated with postpartum perineal tear in high Andean women from the Ayacucho Region, Peru. These and other factors that expressed certain risk can be modified by approaching women from the preconception stage.

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