The impact of perception on institutional delivery service utilization in Northwest Ethiopia: the health belief model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ethiopia has been striving to promote institutional delivery through community wide programs. However, home is still the preferred place of delivery for most women encouraged by the community`s perception that delivery is a normal process and home is the ideal environment. The proportion of women using institutional delivery service is below the expected level. Therefore, we examined the impact of perception on institutional delivery service use by using the health belief model.

Methods

A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 1,394 women who gave birth during the past 1 year from September to December 2019. A multistage sampling technique was used to select the study participants. Data were collected by using health belief model constructs, and

SUBMITTER: Nigusie A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9639283 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature