Pediatrics and Child Health

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    Male involvement in child care and associated factors, among fathers of under two children in Addis Ababa city administration, Ethiopia, 2023.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-05) Melke,Mekuannt; Abera,Habtamu(Ass.Prof.); Workineh,Sosina
    Background: Male plays a critical role in providing support in improving child health. There are few studies on male partner’s involvement and its measurement in child health care; therefore, this paper explores the level of male partner’s involvement in child care and associated factors in the study area. Objective: The main aim of the study was to assess male partners’ involvement in child care and the contributing factors among fathers who have children less than two year of age Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2023. Methods: Community based cross sectional study design was employed from April5-25/2023. The study subject was selected using multi-stage sampling method. The total sample was determined by using single population proportion method with sample size of 633. Data was collected by Kobo tool and exported SPSS version 26 for analysis. Multivariate logistic regression was used to assess relation between independent variables with outcome variable at significance level of P<0.05 and association of variable will be tested by using 95% confidence interval (C.I) and Crude and adjusted odds ratio. Result: The response rate was 94.8% while the study found that 42% of participants were in 35- 39 age groups. The mean ages of the respondents were 37.44 years (±SD 5.43) years. Among the participants 284(47.3%) of respondents involved on infant and young child care and 54.8% and 45.2% of the participants had good and poor knowledge respectively. Half of the respondents, 306 (51.0%) had good attitude toward infant and young child care. Knowledge and attitude of participants were significantly associated with male involvement in infant and young child care [AOR: 3.10, 95% CI ;( 2.01-4.79) and (AOR: 15.24, 95% CI;(9.85-23.57)) with p-value