RESEARCH ARTICLE
Essential neonatal care utilization and associated factors among mothers in public health facilities of Aksum Town, North Ethiopia, 2016 Megbey Berhe1, Araya Abraha Medhaniye2, Gizienesh Kahsay1, Ermyas Birhane1, Mebrahtu Abay1* 1 Department of Public Health, Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia, 2 School of Public Health, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia * [email protected]
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Abstract Background
OPEN ACCESS Citation: Berhe M, Medhaniye AA, Kahsay G, Birhane E, Abay M (2017) Essential neonatal care utilization and associated factors among mothers in public health facilities of Aksum Town, North Ethiopia, 2016. PLoS ONE 12(4): e0175902. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175902
Globally, neonatal death accounts about 44% of child death in 2013. Ethiopia is one of the ten countries with the highest number of neonatal death. Worldwide, more than 43% of deaths among under five year children is contributed by neonates. Half of the neonatal death occur in the first day of life. Recommendations about newborn care practices may conflict with local beliefs and practices. So, it is important to understand the existing newborn care practice and factors affecting it in order to take interventions so as to decrease neonatal death.
Editor: Umberto Simeoni, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, FRANCE
Objective
Received: October 26, 2016
To assess magnitude of essential neonatal care utilization and associated factors among women visiting public health facilities in Aksum Town, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, 2015.
Accepted: April 2, 2017 Published: April 19, 2017 Copyright: © 2017 Berhe et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: All data are available in the manuscript and supporting files. Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Methods Facility based cross sectional study was conducted from December 30, 2015 to January 31, 2016.The sampled population are 423 women who gave live births within the last 6 months prior to data collection. Systematic random sampling technique was employed. Data were entered, coded and cleaned using Epi info version 7, and SPSS Version 21 software was used for analysis. Both bivariable and multivariable logistic regression models were used to determine factors associated with essential neonatal care utilization. Variables with P-value
Essential neonatal care utilization and associated factors among mothers in public health facilities of Aksum Town, North Ethiopia, 2016 Megbey Berhe1, Araya Abraha Medhaniye2, Gizienesh Kahsay1, Ermyas Birhane1, Mebrahtu Abay1* 1 Department of Public Health, Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia, 2 School of Public Health, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia * [email protected]
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Abstract Background
OPEN ACCESS Citation: Berhe M, Medhaniye AA, Kahsay G, Birhane E, Abay M (2017) Essential neonatal care utilization and associated factors among mothers in public health facilities of Aksum Town, North Ethiopia, 2016. PLoS ONE 12(4): e0175902. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175902
Globally, neonatal death accounts about 44% of child death in 2013. Ethiopia is one of the ten countries with the highest number of neonatal death. Worldwide, more than 43% of deaths among under five year children is contributed by neonates. Half of the neonatal death occur in the first day of life. Recommendations about newborn care practices may conflict with local beliefs and practices. So, it is important to understand the existing newborn care practice and factors affecting it in order to take interventions so as to decrease neonatal death.
Editor: Umberto Simeoni, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, FRANCE
Objective
Received: October 26, 2016
To assess magnitude of essential neonatal care utilization and associated factors among women visiting public health facilities in Aksum Town, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, 2015.
Accepted: April 2, 2017 Published: April 19, 2017 Copyright: © 2017 Berhe et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: All data are available in the manuscript and supporting files. Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Methods Facility based cross sectional study was conducted from December 30, 2015 to January 31, 2016.The sampled population are 423 women who gave live births within the last 6 months prior to data collection. Systematic random sampling technique was employed. Data were entered, coded and cleaned using Epi info version 7, and SPSS Version 21 software was used for analysis. Both bivariable and multivariable logistic regression models were used to determine factors associated with essential neonatal care utilization. Variables with P-value
