Browsing by Author "Hailu, Meron"

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    Body image of women with breast cancer after mastectomy among women visiting Tikur Anbessa specialized hospital, Ethiopia2020:a qualitative study.
    (Addis Abeba University, 2020-06) Hailu, Meron; T, Niguse (MSc, Assistant Professor); A, Yohannes(BSc, MSc)
    Background: Breast cancers pose a great shattering feeling on the women‘s feminine identity. The loss of a part of the body that brings this feminine identity makes ladies experience a humbling feeling and ugliness within her imagination. Both their physical and emotionalhealth of patients are impacted by the patient‘s body image and concerns related to theirsituation , thus understanding their feeling about their body can help us to better understandand improve patient‘s health. However, no study done in Ethiopia addressed body image ofbreast cancer after mastectomy. Objective: To gain a holistic and deep understanding about lived experiences and howmastectomy affects body image of Ethiopian Women with breast cancer who undergonemastectomy in Tikur Anbesa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020. Methods: A qualitative descriptive phenomenological study design was employed to understand the lived experience and perception of body image of women with mastectomy. The data was collected from 11 women who had mastectomy. An in-depth interview usingunstructured interview guide from April 28-30 , 2020. Member checking, peer debriefing and audit-trial were applied to assure data quality. Thematic analysis using editing analysis stylewas used by qualitative data analysis software package Atlas ti-7. Result: The result of the analysis led to the emerging of four main themes and sub themes,which are my body image, mastectomy, social life and relationship, and coping mechanism. Most women consider their breast as part of their body, their beauty, full health and life. In this study the women perceive themselves as a disabled person, looking like an old lady at young age and commonly a feeling of loss is reported. Majority of the women said that ithasn‘t brought any change in their relationship. There are different coping mechanisms awomen use to deal effectively with the difficult condition they are in. Conclusion: Women consider their breast as their beauty and its removal affects both psychological and mental well-beings. Mastectomy as a treatment of breast cancer is found to have a negative impact on the women‘s perception about their body image. The care thewomen with mastectomy receive from the health care professional is found to be very vital.
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    Factors Associated With Low Birth Weight among Recent Delivery in Public Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-09) Hailu, Meron; Regassa, Nigatu Professor
    Introduction: Birth weight is one of the most predictive factors of child death in the first few months of life and is an important indicator of Newborns' health. The incidence of low birth weight is estimated to be 16% worldwide, 19% in developing countries, and 7% in the developed countries. Currently, thirteen percent of Ethiopian babies are low birth weight and different studies reported that, the prevalence of low birth weight accounts about 8.8% and 10.5% in Addis Ababa and Tigray region, respectively. This study has primarily aimed to assess the factors associated with newborn birth weight in selected Addis Ababa Public Hospitals. Methods and Materials: Data collection for the present study was conducted in Addis Ababa from March 2021 to April 2021. A facility-based Cross-sectional study was employed among 466 mothers who gave birth in public hospitals during the study period. Primary data was collected using a structured questionnaire which is adopted from previous studies. The sample size was calculated by Epi Info calc using an assumption of 95% CI, 80% power, 20.6 percent exposed, 10.4 percent unexposed and 2.2 adjusted odds ratio. To recruit the study participants, systematic random sampling was used. Univariate, bivariate, & multiple logistic regression analyses were done. Adjusted odds ratios were used to identify the association between the key predictors and the dependent variable. All statistical tests used in this study were two-sided and a significant association was declared at a p-value < 0.05. Result: Of the total respondents, 12.4% of them gave birth to low birth weight infants. The median age of the participant was registered to be 28yrs (IQR=7) and 92.3% of them were married. The results of multivariable logistic regression showed the number of ante natal care visit (AOR=0.4, 95% CI 0.17-0.99), presence of abnormal uterine bleeding (AOR=10.9, 95% CI 2.5-15.8), Experiencing of Pre-eclampsia or Eclampsia (AOR 9.5, 95% CI 4.8-10.8), having Anemia (AOR=3.3, 95% CI 3.1-3.6), Chewing khat during recent pregnancy (AOR=7.9, 95% CI 3.9-16.1), and pre-pregnancy maternal nutritional status (AOR=0.2, 95% CI 0.1-0.5) were found to be key determinants of low birth weight among the study population. Conclusion: - Encouraging the pregnant mother to have frequent ante natal care visits, behavioral change communications targeting pregnant mother in improving women's nutritional status, and reducing maternal toxic exposures should be priority areas of interventions to curb the problem