Knowledge and Attitude of Health Care providers towards Kangaroo Mother Care in Dessie Health Institutions, Douth Eollo Zone, Eastern Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia, 2015.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kalku Yemesirach (MSc) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Belete Dagne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-16T06:44:06Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-06T08:54:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-09-16T06:44:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-06T08:54:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Abstract Introduction: kangaroo mother care (KMC) is placing the naked newborn baby in upright position covered across the back and with a hat against mother's bare chest in a way the baby can feed breast. It has several advantages for mother and baby. Hence, all newborn babies wherever and whenever they are delivered, they should get KMC. Objective: This study was aimed at exploring knowledge and attitude of health care providers towards Kangaroo Mother Care in Dessie health institutions, South Wollo, Ethiopia. Methods: Institution based descriptive cross sectional study was conducted on 257 health care providers from January to June 2015. A simple random sampling method was employed to select Health care Providers among each institution. Structured self administered questionnaire was also used to collect data. data was analyzed using SPSS version 16. Summery measure was used for descriptive statistics. To assess the association between independent variables with knowledge and attitude, first bivariate relationships was investigated by a binary logistic regression model and independent variables found at 0.25 were transferred to multivariate logistic regression. Significance was determined using adjusted odds ratios with 95% confidence level at P 0.05. Result: 123(49.8%) HCPs were knowledgeable and 105(42.5%) had positive attitudeabout KMC. Sex, educational level, professional qualification, KMC guideline and BEMoNC, resuscitation, KMC trainings were positively associated with Knowledge,whereas sources of information and knowledge were positively associated with attitude of HCPs about KMC. Conclusion: HCPs were not knowledgeable about KMC, although a positive association was observed between their knowledge: sex, training status, presence of KMC guideline,educational level, and professional qualification. Similarly, HCPs had negative attitude about KMC, though attitude was positively associated with knowledge and number of sources of information. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/27911 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Kangaroo Mother Care, Health Care Providers, Knowledge, Attitude | en_US |
| dc.title | Knowledge and Attitude of Health Care providers towards Kangaroo Mother Care in Dessie Health Institutions, Douth Eollo Zone, Eastern Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia, 2015. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |