Completion of maternal and child health continuum of care and associated factors among women in Gode district, Shebele Zone, Eastern Ethiopia, 2022.

BACKGROUND: The Continuum of care for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health includes integrated service delivery for mothers and children from pre-pregnancy to delivery, the immediate postnatal period, and childhood. In Ethiopia, the magnitude of antenatal care, skilled delivery, postnatal care, and immunization for children have shown improvement. Despite this, there was limited research on the percentage of mothers who have completed maternal and child continuum care. OBJECTIVE: To assess the Completion of Maternal and Child Health Continuum of Care and Associated Factors among women in Gode District, Shebele Zone, Eastern Ethiopia ,2022. METHOD: A community-based cross-sectional study design applied from November 1-15, 2022. A stratified sampling method was applied. A woman who had two 14-24 months child preceding the data collection period were included in the study. An interviewer-administered semi-structured questioner had been used for data collection. Data collected by using kobo collect and analyzed using STATA version 17. Both Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were done. In multivariable analysis, variables having P-values ≤ 0.05 were taken as factors associated with the completion of the maternal and child health continuum of care. RESULT: The Completion of maternal and child continuum of care was 13.5% (10.7-17.0%) in Gode district,2022. Accordingly, Husband occupation (Government employee) [AOR = 2.3, 95%CI 1.2-4.7] and perceived time to reach health facility (less than 30 min) [AOR = 2.96, 95%CI 1.2-7.5] were factors showing significant association with maternal and child health continuum of care among mothers in Gode district, Somali regional State;2022 at P-value ≤ 0.05. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION: Only 13.5% of mothers in Gode district received all of the recommended maternal and child health services during their pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum period. The study found that two factors were associated with a higher likelihood of receiving Maternal and child continuum of care: Government employed husband and perceived time to reach a health facility. Governments can play a key role in increasing the maternal and child health continuum of care by investing by making health care facility accessible.

Partograph utilization and associated factors among obstetric care givers in governmental health institutions of Jigjiga and Degehabur towns, Somali region, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND: Partograph is a simple, inexpensive & economical tool that provides a continuous graphical overview of labour and prevents prolonged and obstructed labor. The purpose of the study is to assess partograph utilization and associated factors among obstetric care givers in governmental health institutions of Jigjiga and Degehabur Towns, Somali Region, Ethiopia. METHODS: An institution based cross-sectional quantitative study was carried out among obstetric care givers who were working in governmental health institutions. Systematic random sampling with proportional to size allocation was used to recruit a total of 235 study participants. Self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data in this study. Three data collectors and one supervisor were recruited and trained to facilitate the data collection activities. Data were entered into Epi data software and exported into SPSS (23.0) for analysis. Descriptive statistics, bivariate and multivariate logistic regression were computed to determine proportions and significant association with partograph utilization among obstetric care givers. RESULT: Less than half of obstetric care givers, 41% (95%CI: 34.5-46.9) had good partograph utilization to monitor progress of labor. Being female [AOR = 2.36, 95%CI:(1.03-5.44)], availability of partograph [AOR = 4.633, 95%CI: (1.698-12.640)], having good knowledge [AOR = 6.90, 95%CI:(2.62-18.18)], receiving on job training [AOR = 15.46, 95%CI:(6.95-34.42)] and positive attitude towards partograph [AOR = 2.99, 95%CI:(1.25-7.14)] were significantly associated with partograph utilization. CONCLUSION: Partograph utilization in this study was low. Especial emphasizes and interventions should be given to periodic on job training that improve knowledge and attitude of obstetric care givers to increase partograph utilization.