Browsing by Author "Mahlet Mulugeta"

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    Assessment of Male Regular Sexual Partner Involvement in the Use of Modern Contraceptive and Associated Factors among Undergraduate Regular Female Students of Addis Ababa University
    (Addis Abeba University, 2020-03) Mahlet Mulugeta; Wubegzier Mekonnen; Abiy Seifu
    Background:University students most of which in the youth age category exposed to many risky sexual behaviors in the context of low knowledge of modern contraception can lead to several sexual health consequences. Besides, studies have documented that male involvement raised family planning uptake among females. However, there is limited information among the youth, which are not married, but in regular sexual partnership. The paucity of information is particularly high among University students. Objective: To assess the involvement of male regular sexual partner in the use of modern contraception, among regular undergraduate female students of Addis Ababa, University, 2017. Methods: A cross sectional study used on 634 undergraduate students from March 2017 to April 2017.Multi- stage stratified sampling used to select the study participants. First using purposive sampling five colleges and ten departments with the highest number of female students were selected respectively. Then simple random sampling technique used to select the study participants. The study measures magnitude of female students in sexual partnership. A composite variable is determined and measures the involvement of males in modern contraception. The overall association of different covariates with male involvement is assessed using multi-variants logistic regression. Result: 621 female undergraduate students enrolled after fulfilling the inclusion criteria with response rate 97%. Two hundred seventy eight (44.8%) of them had regular sexual partner in past 12 month at the time of data collection. In addition age (AOR=3.46, 95%CI [1.15, 10.32]), study year (AOR=8.62, 95%CI [3.99, 18.61]), current residence (AOR=11.01, 95%CI [4.25, 28.49]), average pocket money (AOR=3.22, 95%CI [1.65, 6.29]). Attending nightclub (AOR=3.24, 95%CI [2.02, 5.2]), watching pornography (AOR=2.83, 95%CI [1.38, 5.78]), peer pressure (AOR=1.83, 95%CI [1.15, 2.92]) were found to have association with sexual partnership in the past 12 month. One third 86 (31%) of the regular sexual partners were found to be involved in modern contraceptive use. Moreover, partners’ educational status (AOR=3.04, 95%CI [1.3, 7.11]), partners’ monthly pocket money (AOR=4.86, 95%CI [1.23, 19.1]), having sex after partner used substance (AOR=2.07, 95%CI [1.03, 4.19]) and using contraceptives in the past 12 month (AOR= 6.51, 95%CI [1.26, 33.48]), were found to have association with involvement of male regular sexual partner on modern contraceptive use. Conclusion: Almost half of university students were engaged in sexual partnership in the past 12 month. There was significant association between age, study year, current residence, average pocket money, attending nightclub, watching pornography and peer pressure with sexual partnership in the past 12 month. From female students who were in regular sexual partnership the male partners who were involved in contraceptive use were very low. Partner’s educational status, partner’s average pocket money and having sex after partner used substances, using modern contraceptive in the past 12, were tends to be associated with the outcome variable regular male sexual partner involvement in contraceptive use. To improve male sexual partner participation in contraceptive use, all stakeholders on sexual and reproductive health should focus on male sexual partners' involvement in modern contraceptive use.
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    Impact of Cash Support to Drought Affected Households’ Food Security and Coping Strategies: The Case of Meiso Woreda, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-05) Mahlet Mulugeta; Desalegn Yayeh (PhD)
    Food security remain as the major challenges to achieve economic development in Ethiopia where drought is one of the key driving factors for food insecurity. The scaling up of humanitarian cash assistance in recent years has been significant. Therefore, the study was conducted to assess the Impact of the cash support to drought affected Household food security status and coping strategies of Meiso woreda. Accordingly, data were collected from 280 sample households selected using multistage sampling method. Besides, focus group discussion and key informant interview were used to collect data to triangulate the questionnaire survey. Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and Food Consumption Score (FCS) were used to determine the food security status of households while ordered logistic regression model were used to analyze the determinant factors which affect food security of sampled household. Moreover, a Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method was applied to assess the impact of the cash on household food security status. The result of the HFIAS shows that out of the total surveyed households, approximately 11% households were categorized as food secure, 20% as mildly food insecure, 66% as moderately food insecure and 4% as severely food insecure. On the other hand, the FCS results indicated that 58% of HHs are under acceptable food consumption whereas 26% and 16 % of HHs are under borderline and poor food consumption category respectively. The ordinal logistic regression model revealed that independent variables namely, cash beneficiary household, livestock holding, female livestock ownership, income generating activities, total annual income and access to credit were found to be statistically significant predictor for household food security. Majority or 79% percent of the food insecure households have used emergency coping strategies to combat food shortage and meet their immediate needs. According to the average treatment effect (ATT) on treated, the cash intervention has a positive and significant influence on household food security status where the difference between treatment and control group is 14.7%. Based on the findings, the author recommends the cash support to be strengthened as medium solution, facilitate access to credit, creating employment opportunities to increase the total income of the household and enhancing the livestock production.