Assessment of awareness and attitude of pregnant women toward anesthesia techniques for cesarean section and associated factors at selected public Hospital of Addis Ababa Ethiopia,2021.
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2021-06
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Addis Abeba University
Abstract
Background There is a lack of public awareness of anesthesia as a medical specialty.
Obstetric women's decisions to have a cesarean section are influenced by a lack of
awareness about anesthesia and anesthesia techniques.
Objective: To assess awareness and attitude of pregnant women’s towards anesthesia
techniques for cesarean section among women attending ANC at selected public Hospital
of Addis Ababa, 2021
Method: Prospective cross-section study design was employed among 332 pregnant
women who were attended ANC at selected public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A
systematic random sampling technique was used for selecting participants. The data was
collected by using a pretest structured questionnaire and entered into Epi Data for
cleaning. Then it was exported to SPSS version 26 for analysis. Both binary and
multivariate logistic regressions were used to measure the association between the
factors and outcomes at 95% CI and P-value <0.05 was considered as statistically
significant
Results: The finding of the study reflected that from total study participants, 206(62%)
were heard about anesthesia. In this study, 116(56.3) of participants had a good
awareness of anesthesia techniques .Level of education and number of parity were
significantly associated with awareness of anesthesia techniques. Respondents who were
completed secondary school had a good awareness of anesthesia
techniques[AOR=6.785; 95% CI (1.01- 45.170)] and women with para three had good
awareness than null parity [AOR=6.453; 95% CI (1.612-25.825)].The study found,
146(70.9%) of respondents had a positive attitude towards anesthesia techniques but the
previous type of anesthesia and absence of anesthesia-related complication had no
significant association with the parturient’s attitude towards anesthesia techniques.
Among 43 respondents who previously received GA, 13 respondents preferred again GA
whereas out of 66 respondents who received SA, 48 participants preferred spinal
anesthesia.
Conclusion: Overall our parturients' awareness about anesthesia and anesthesia
techniques for cesarean section is low. Out of the total participant, 126(38%) were even
not heard about anesthesia
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Cesarean section, Anesthesia techniques, Awareness, and Attitude.