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Abstract    Background: Caesarean Section is the second commonest surgery done on women in India after tubectomy and have great impact on maternal and neonatal health. Increasing Caesarean rates have raised the need to study its influencing factors. The overall Caesarean section rate in our set up is about 31.26%. of which 45.68% were primary sections. Objectives: To analyse the various clinical and non-clinical influencing factors of Caesarean Section. Materials and methods: We did a retrospective study consisting of 200 cases of caesarean sections conducted in Chigateri General Hospital, attached to JJMMC, Davangere during 2014. We analysed factors like age, Educational level, BMI, Parity, Co-morbidity, type of CS, Indications and fetal birth weight and Neonatal performance. Data was collected from the Hospital records. Results: In this study, 74.5% were unbooked, 74% were educated, 62.5% had more than normal BMI,16.5% were associated with hypertensive disorders, 58% were primary and 42% were repeat sections. There were 86.5% emergency and 13.5% were elective CS. The commonest indications were not willing for VBAC (70%), fetal distress (52%) and CPD (19%).Majority of the fetal weight among the study group were more than 2.5kg. Conclusions: According to our study, higher educational level, unbooked status and BMI more than normal were the significant factors determining CS. Nearly three-fifth of the patient underwent primary CS. Being a tertiary and referral Hospital we had a very high Caesarean rates.

Keywords: Social factors, Caesarean section, Primary, Emergency.

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