Community-based newborn care utilisation and associated factors in Geze Gofa rural district, South Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The community-based newborn care (CBNC) is a newborn care package along the maternal and newborn health continuum of care that has been implemented at the community level in Ethiopia. The utilisation which might be affected by several factors has not been well assessed. Thus, this study aimed to examine the utilisation of CBNC and associated factors among women who delivered recently in Geze Gofa rural district, south Ethiopia.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Community-based.

Participants

Three-hundred seventy-one women who had their newborns recently were randomly selected. Then, they were interviewed at their places using an interviewer-administered structured questionnaire.

Methods

A binary logistic regression analysis was done. In the

SUBMITTER: Gebremedhin T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7443266 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature