Awareness of Labor Analgesia and its Associatedfactors Among Pregnant Women who Had Antenatalcare Follow up at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital,Addis Ababa Ethiopia
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2023-06-22
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Labor pain is one of the most severe forms of pain that women experience
throughout their lifetime. Many pregnant women in our country don’t ask analgesia for labor pain. This is due to women awareness about the presence of labor pain analgesics is low.
Objective: To asses awareness of labor analgesia and associated factors among pregnant women who had ANC follow up at TASH.
Methods: An Institutional based cross-sectional study design was conducted among 382 women attending ANC in TASH. Structured, pretested and interview administered questionnaire was used to collect related data. Data were coded and entered in to Epi-Info version 7 and exported to SPSS version 25 for analyses. Bivariate and multivariate binary logistic regression analyses were used to identify independent predictors of awareness of labour analgesia. Odds ratio with 95 %
Confidence interval was estimated to identify the predictors of the outcome variables. Statistical
significance was affirmed at a p-value ≤ 0.05.
Results: A total of 375 women attending ANC TASH were participated in this study making a response rate of 98.1%. A total of 116 (30.9%) 95% CI: (27.5-36.3) women had awareness about labour analgesics. Factors associated with awareness of labour analgesics were; Higher education level (high school education [AOR=3.1, 95%CI: 1.4-7.1], college or university [AOR=9.8,
95%CI: 3.6-26.6]), Urban resident [AOR=5.9, 95%CI: 2.1-17.3], and Information during ANC [AOR= 5. 2, 95%CI: 1.5- 17.1].
Conclusion and Recommendations: We found that the practice of giving information on labor analgesia were low on the ANC clinic and it’s highly associated with women awareness.
Therefore, health care providers should practice provision of adequate information about labour pain management to enable women's right of informed decisio