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Essential Newborn Care Practice and Associated Factors among Home Delivered Mothers within the Past Six Months, in Aba...
ISSN: 2582 - 6751
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Essential Newborn Care Practice and Associated Factors among Home Delivered Mothers within the Past Six Months, in Aba...
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Publisher: Athenaeum Scientific Publishers
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Abstract
Abstract Background: Poor immediate new-born care practice increases risk of morbidity and mortality by predisposing the new-borns to sepsis and hypothermia. In developing countries nearly 3 million new-borns babies die every year mostly where many births happen at home. Therefore, assessment of essential new-born care practice among home delivered mothers is important for the improvement of new born health and reduction of risk of morbidity and mortality. However, to the best knowledge of researcher, there was no previous study on this title at this study area. Objective: Assess essential new-born care practices and associated factors among mothers delivered at home during the six months preceding the study in Abaya district of West Guji zone, Oromia, Ethiopia from August 1-August 30, 2019. Methods: Community based cross-sectional study design was employed. Stratified-multi stage sampling technique was used to select 632 study subjec...
