Neonatal Danger Signs: Knowledge and Its Correlates Among Mothers Attending Child Vaccination Program at Public Health Centers of Southwest Ethiopia

Aman Dule; Sadik Habib; Mustefa Mohammedhussein

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Neonatal Danger Signs: Knowledge and Its Correlates Among Mothers Attending Child Vaccination Program at Public Health Centers of Southwest Ethiopia

Aman Dule, Sadik Habib, Mustefa Mohammedhussein

Published in Science Journal of Clinical Medicine (Volume 12, Issue 1)

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Neonatal danger signs are the indication of the presence of clinically significant risk of neonatal morbidity and mortality which pursues the need for the early assessment and therapeutic interventions. In this regards, the main aim of this study was to examine the status of knowledge about neonatal danger signs and its correlates among mothers attending child vaccination program at public health centers of south west Ethiopia. Facility based cross sectional study was conducted in November, 2020. Four hundred eleven participants were recruited through systematic random sampling. Pre-tested structured questionnaires were used to collect data. Data were entered into Epidata version 3.1 and analyzed by SPSS version 20. Binary logistic regression was employed and explanatory variables with P value < 0.25 in the bivariate logistic regression were included in the multivariable logistic regression model. Adjusted odd ratio was considered to determine association and P value < 0.05 was used to declare statistical significance. As the result indicated, about 34.3% (95% CI: 29-38.9) of participants reported to have good knowledge of neonatal danger signs. Maternal age between 29-32 year (AOR =7.3, 95% CI: 3.7-14.5), being government employee (AOR=2.5, 95% CI: 1.3-4.9), ANC attendance (AOR = 3.95, 95% CI: 2.1-7.52), two or more ANC visits (AOR=3.79, 95% CI: 1.79-8.05) and having ≥ 3 PNC visit during the last delivery (AOR=4.3, 95% CI: 2.14-8.63) were signiﬁcantly associated with good knowledge of neonatal danger signs. In conclusions, nearly two thirds of participants had poor knowledge of neonatal danger signs which indicates the need for the necessary intervention. Maternal age and occupation, and the trends of ANC and PNC visit were identified as the factors that had linked to the status of maternal knowledge about neonatal danger signs.

Published in	Science Journal of Clinical Medicine (Volume 12, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.sjcm.20231201.12
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Neonate, Danger Signs, Knowledge, Vaccination, ANC Visit, Southwest Ethiopia

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Aman Dule, Sadik Habib, Mustefa Mohammedhussein. Neonatal Danger Signs: Knowledge and Its Correlates Among Mothers Attending Child Vaccination Program at Public Health Centers of Southwest Ethiopia. Sci J Clin Med. 2023;12(1):11-17. doi: 10.11648/j.sjcm.20231201.12

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Aman Dule

Department of Psychiatry, College of Health Sciences, Mettu University, Mettu, Ethiopia
Sadik Habib

Department of Public Health, Mettu Health Science College, Mettu, Ethiopia
Mustefa Mohammedhussein

Department of Psychiatry, School of Health Science, Madda Walabu University, Goba, Ethiopia

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