Essential newborn care practices and associated factors among home delivered mothers in Damot pulasa Woreda, southern Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Globally 3.1 million children die each year in their neonatal period (first 28 days of life) according to World Health Organization (WHO) 2011 report. Half of these surprisingly occur within the first 24 h of delivery and 75% occur in the early neonatal period.

Methods

A community based cross-sectional study design was carried out from March 2016 to April, 2016 in Damot Pulasa district, Wolaita zone, Southern Ethiopia to assess selected essential newborn care practices and associated factors among home delivered mothers in Damot pulasa district. Data were entered into Epi Info version 3.5.1 and exported to SPSS version 20 software for analysis. Multiple logistic analyses were done to control possible confounding variable. A P-value less than 0.05 was taken as a si

SUBMITTER: Chichiabellu TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6161384 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature