Assessment of Male Partners’ Involvement in Promoting Skilled Delivery Attendance of Spouses and Associated Factors in Lemo Woreda, Hadiya Zone, Southern Nation Nationality People Region, Ethiopia, 2014
| dc.contributor.advisor | Tsige Yoseph | |
| dc.contributor.author | Abusha Nuradin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-17T07:07:11Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-06T09:01:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-17T07:07:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-06T09:01:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: - The involvement of men in the maternal health programs increase outreach as wellas utilization of the various reproductive health services. However, the failure to incorporate menin maternal health promotion, prevention and implementation of maternal health services has hada serious impact on the health of women and children. Objective: - To assess male partners’ involvement in promoting skilled delivery of spouse and its associated factors among households who have children age 0-12 months in Lemo woreda,Southern Ethiopia. Method: - A community based cross sectional study was conducted from March - April, 2014.The study was used multi-stage sampling scheme using simple random and systematic samplingtechniques. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 16.0. A descriptive analysis was done usingfrequency, mean, quartile and standard deviation. Crude and adjust logistic regression were usedto see relationship between independent variable with outcome variable in order controlconfounding factors. Significance level of P<0.05 and association of variables were tested byusing 95% confidence interval (C.I) and odd ratio. Results: Data were obtained from 335 male partners, yielding a response rate 94.1%. Theprevalence of male partner’s involvement in promoting skilled delivery attendant was 38.2%.After adjusting for the effect of confounding variables using logistic regression, variables likepersonal income, Cost of delivery service and knowledge of male partners have statisticallysignificant association with male partner’s involvement in promoting skilled delivery attendants. Conclusion and recommendation: - In general, the study has revealed that male partner’sinvolvement in promoting skilled delivery attendant was low. Finally the factors associated withhigh male partners’ involvement in promoting skilled delivery attendants of spouses included;higher education status of the husband, male partners who can afford cost of health facilityservices, men who have high income, early adult hood and high status occupations with greaterwealth. The government and other responsible bodies should make efforts to increase communitybased health education, awareness creation and improve male partner’s involvement on skilleddelivery attendants of a spouse that strategy may reduce MMR by improve reproductive health care. Key words: Male involvement, skilled delivery attendant, Lemo Woreda | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/8908 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Male involvement Skilled delivery atten Lemo Woreda | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of Male Partners’ Involvement in Promoting Skilled Delivery Attendance of Spouses and Associated Factors in Lemo Woreda, Hadiya Zone, Southern Nation Nationality People Region, Ethiopia, 2014 | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |