Intention to Use Maternal Waiting Homes and Related Factors among Pregnant Women in Metu Woreda, Western Ethiopia
Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
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32(5): 875-884, 5 September 2022. Tables
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Maternity Waiting Homes are houses built in the healthcare settings that lodge pregnant women in their term state of pregnancy to prevent labor and delivery-related complication. This study aimed to estimate the extent of pregnant women's intention to use Maternal Waiting Homes and identify its associated factors in Metu Woreda, Western Ethiopia.METHODS:
A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted from March 1-30, 2018. We used a systematic sampling method to select the study participants and Binary logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors associated with the intention of the women to use Maternal Waiting Homes.RESULTS:
A total of (97%) of respondents' questionnaires were found complete and analyzed for this study. Almost half (48.8%) of the pregnant women who participated in the study were planned to use Maternal Waiting Homes in their prospective delivery. Based on multivariate logistic regression analysis; being illiterate and/or less educated in their educational status, having a history of using Maternal Waiting homes, and receiving a number of times antenatal care services were found statistically significantly associated with intention of the women to use Maternal Waiting Homes.CONCLUSION:
It is trivial that more than half of the pregnant women who participated in the study were unintended to use Maternal Waiting Homes. Educational status, a number of times attending antenatal care services and experience of using Maternal Waiting Homes were found statistically significantly associated with women's intention to use Maternal Waiting Homes
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AIM (Africa)
Main subject:
Delivery of Health Care
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Intention
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Pregnant Women
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Intraoperative Complications
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Language:
English
Journal:
Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
Year:
2022
Type:
Article
Institution/Affiliation country:
Addis Ababa University College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia/ET
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Metu University College of Health Sciences, Metu, Ethiopia/ET
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St. Paul Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia/ET
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