Factor Contributed

to the health risk of

advanced maternal
age By:
MARIO ASINJO
ABEGAIL DANZALAN
JERICHO ARIOLA
MARLON GAMAYON
Christina Dumale
Rica Dela Cruz
Research Background
 The researchers chose to study the
: Factors contributing to health risk of
advanced maternal age because the
researchers want to know the possible
health risk that might encounter
during and after pregnancy and health
risk of the baby. One of the researcher
is a product of an advanced maternal
age that’s why the researchers focus
Objectives:
To identify the health risks of advanced
maternal age.
To know how advanced maternal age will
affects the new born baby.
To know how the advanced maternal age
mothers cope with the health risks they
experienced.
 Statement of the problem:
1. What are the factors contributing to
health risks of advanced maternal age?
2. How does the advanced maternal age
affects the new born baby?
3. How does the advanced maternal age
mothers cope with the health risks they
experienced?
Hypothesis:
The researchers think that the possible health risks that
the mother encountered in advanced maternal age is high
blood pressure or gestational hypertension this places the
mother at risk for central nervous system issues,
seizures,blood clots and liver and kidney failure. It can
also cause premature delivery, due to low blood flow to
the fetus. Another problem that becomes more common
with age is diabetes, this includes gestational diabetes
which happens when previously non-diabetic mothers are
more likely to be macrosomic, which puts them at an
increased risk for birth trauma and neonatal
hypoglycemia.
Health risks also includes miscarriage, still birth, breech
positioning of the baby, and anemia and more due to
presence of existing sickness or condition that might
aggravates because of the late pregnancy and lack of
knowledge on how to manage the possible health risk.
The researchers think that the possible effect of
advanced maternal age to the baby is having a
chromosomal problems such as Down syndrome and
mental retardation. Based on the existing studies the
women of maternal advanced age increases the risks of
fetal intrauterine distress,neonatal resuscitaion and
intracranial hemorrhage. It also have higher incidence
rates of cleft lip and palate.
The mother who encountered late pregnancy at her late
age might cope with the health risk by having a regular
pre-natal checkup, eating right foods, taking the right
vitamins for the pregnant women, regular exercises to
prevent pregnancy complications and emotional and
psychological support from her family on the process of
childbirth until the postpartum days.
Conceptual Framework :

Input Process Output

The conceptual framework that was used by the
respondents is the INPUT-PROCESS-OUTPUT model.
Input shows the dependent variables such as
demographic date such as name,age and gender of
the respondents. The process is the way of
gathering data about the factors contributing to
health risk of late pregnancy with the used of
questionnaire and face to face interview. The
output is the result of data that was gathered
through the process of the study.
Significant of the study:

The study conducted to find out the factors

contributing to the health risk of late pregnancy at
the age of 35 years old in Brgy. Habitat, Sto Niño
3rd, San Jose City, Nueva Ecija. The result of the
study is beneficial to the advanced maternal
mother, to the mothers, to the community, to the
researchers, and future researchers.
 Scope and delimitation:
The main purpose of the study is to know the factors
contributing to the health risk of advanced maternal age. The
researchers focuses to health risks that the mother might
encounter, the effects of advanced maternal age to the baby
and how to cope with the health risks that will arise on the
childbearing process. The researchers conducted the study in
Brgy. Habitat Sto.Niño 3rd, San Jose City,Nueva Ecija.
The researcher limited the study 10 advanced maternal
age mothers as a respondents. The researchers used survey
questionnaire as their tool to gather information. The study is
conducted from June-October 2018.
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