Pattern and factors of place of childbirth care service in Kirkos sub city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Betre, Mulugeta (MD, MPH, Fellow) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Negash, Aklilu | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-11T07:07:19Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-05T14:40:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-04-11T07:07:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-05T14:40:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: Skilled health personnel attended delivery is a key for reduction of maternal mortality ratio and also for better perinatal outcome of the fetus/neonate. Our endless concern about place of childbirth care is not for nothing Therefore, choices of places of childbirth care and its related factors are important for maternal health care outcomes. Objective: The objective of the study is to assess the patterns and factors of choice of place of childbirth care service in Kirkos Sub City, Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Method: A community based survey with face to face interview using a structured and pretested questionnaire was conducted from April 1 to July 30, 2018 on a sample of 594 women who had experienced child birth within the last 12 months prior to the study. Simple random sampling to select woredas and systematic random sampling was used to contact eligible woman. Women with a child less than one years of age in each woreda are interviewed until the sample size in each woreda is completed. Data were entered and analyzed using EPI info v.7 and SPSS version 20. Univariable analysis was done to describe some important characteristics of study subjects. Multivariable analysis using binary logistic regression technique was done to see the association between the independent variables and the dependent variable. In multivariable analyses odds ratio with 95% confidence interval was estimated to identify predictors of patterns of place of childbirth care service by controlling the effect of others. Result: In this study, of the 594 women who had given birth in last 12 month prior to the study period selected as sample, only 544 women responded to the questionnaire; make the response rate 92%. Majority of respondents have given birth and also have plan to give birth in future in public childbirth care facilities. 434 (79.7%), 105 (19.3%) and 5(1.00%) of respondents had delivered in public, private health childbirth care facilities and at home respectively. Level of education, place of antenatal care woman attended and pervious obstetric complication showed stastically significant with women’s choices for places of childbirth care service. Conclusion: Most of women gave birth in public childbirth care facility. In general, the present study showed that women have a confidence on public childbirth care service despite there is a commonly perceived doubt in quality in public child birth care. Recommendation: Therefore, health programmer and service providers at all level should work to ensure pubic childbirth care centers fulfill the minimum standard of childbirth care services to help women with labour. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/17818 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa Universty | en_US |
| dc.subject | maternal mortality, | en_US |
| dc.title | Pattern and factors of place of childbirth care service in Kirkos sub city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |