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    Assessment of Mothers/Care Givers Health Care Seeking Behavior for Childhood Illness in Rural Ensaro District, North Shoa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia 2014
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-06) Shewasinad Sisay; Gemechu Endalew
    Introduction: The UN (United Nation) Millennium Development Goals (MDG 4) calls forEthiopia to reduce child mortality by a two-third by the year 2015. The practice of appropriatehealth care seeking has a great potential to reduce the occurrence of severe and life-threateningchildhood illnesses. However, varieties of factors have been identified as the leading causes ofpoor utilization of primary health care services. Poor socio-economic status, lack of physicalaccessibility, attitude to modern treatment, low literacy level of the mothers, large family size,number of symptoms, previous experience of child death, and perceived severity of illness werethe predictors of care seeking behavior Objective: To assess mothers/care givers health care seeking behavior and its determinants forchildhood illnesses Methodology: The study employed both quantitative and qualitative data collection methodswith face to face prepared questionnaire for quantitative and focus group discussion forqualitative study from April 11 to May 10/2014. For quantitative data template was prepared andthe data was entered, categorized, coded, and summarized using EPI 3.5.3 and transformed toSPSS version 20.00 for further analysis. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysiswas done to see the association of each categories of variable with the outcome variable.Significance was checked at 95% CI with p-value <0.05. Result: Regarding child hood illness 4 weeks preceding the study. 212 (33.1%) children hadillness.Most of the respondents 438(68.3%) believed that there were childhood illness that could not betreated by modern medicineMothers/ caregivers who had diploma and above education level were more likely to seek healthcare than those who were illiterate and Place of residence also appeared as an important factorthat influenced healthcare-seeking, with residents urban more likely seek health care than ruralresidence. Conclusion and Recommendation: The critical predictors of healthcare-seeking identifiedusing multivariate analysis are; place of residence, educational status of the mothers/care givers,age of the mothers /care givers, distance of the health facility and private drug shop owner.Regarding to recommendation, efforts need to be done by government and non-governmentalorganization to improve the mothers’ health seeking behavior by providing information,education and behavioral change communication. Key words: mothers/care givers, health, care, seeking, behavior, childhood, illness, and ruraldistrict