Lakew, Serawit (2014) Women’s Pregnancy Complications and Health Assistance Seeking Behavior at Arba Minch Zuria District, South West Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: All pregnant women are at risk of developing life-threatening complications; around 15 % of all pregnant women develop this complication worldwide. Most complications can neither be predicted accurately nor prevented. Once a woman develops complications, she needs prompt access to maternal care services if death or disability is to be prevented. In Southern Ethiopia, little is known about women‘s experience of complications and their care seeking behaviour during pregnancy. This study attempted to assess women‘s pregnancy complications and seeking assistance from a skilled provider among those who gave birth in the last 1 year preceding the study. Method: This study was a cross-sectional community based survey of women who gave birth within one year preceding the study regardless of their delivery place but stayed pregnancy period in the study area. The study was carried out in eight randomly selected kebeles In Arba Minch Zuria District, South West Ethiopia. Data was collected house-to-house using a pretested Amharic questionnaire. During the survey, 399 women were interviewed. Data entry was done using Epi Info version 3.5.2 and was exported to SPSS version 20 for analysis. Logistic regression was applied to control confounders. Results: Out of the total sample, 172(43.1%) respondents reported at least any one of the problems faced in the index pregnancy. The most common complications reported were Malaria, Nausea/Vomiting and severe head ache. Out of the total women who faced complications, 156(73.8 %) sought assistance from a skilled provider. Did not think seriousness of the problems, thought as not necessary, and because family did not allow were the reasons for not seeking care from skilled providers. Belonging to a middle monthly household income (AOR = 3.4, 95% CI; 1.04, 11.4), getting antenatal care from a skilled provider (AOR= 10.6, 95%CI; 3.3,34.5), Women in the age 20-34years old (AOR = 3.8; 95% CI, 1.2, 12.3), use of vehicle transport services (AOR = 72.2; 95% CI; 17.2, 303.5) were significantly associated with seeking assistance from a skilled provider. 90(70.9%) respondents who had a skilled assistance had knowledge of life threatening pregnancy complications and 69(54.3%) respondents had knowledge of non-life threatening complications. Conclusions: More than 2/3rd of the women who faced complications did use skilled providers at the time of pregnancy complications. Family, client, income, transportation use, ANC services were a concern for not using skilled assistance from a skilled provider.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Skilled assistance, skilled provider, south west Ethiopia, Arba Minch Zuria district |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2018 10:40 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2018 10:40 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7978 |
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