Abstract:
Background: Newborn care is strategic approach to improve the health of newborns through interventions before, during and after pregnancy, immediately after birth and postnatal period. Globally, even if 75% of births take places with the assistance of a trained birth attendant such as a doctor, nurse, or midwife newborn care practice is unsatisfactory in developing countries. Objectives: To assess newborn care practice and its associated factors among postnatal mothers in public health facility of Tembaro Woreda, South Ethiopia from June 07-July 07/2021. Methods: Facility based cross-sectional study design was conducted from June 07-July 07/2021. Data were collected from 418 randomly selected mothers by face-to-face interview. The collected data was coded cleaned and entered in to EpiData version 3.1 and was exported to statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 25 for further analysis. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, proportions, means, and median was calculated and Odds ratio with 95% confidence interval was calculated to assess the strength of associations for most variables in the study and presented by tables and chart. Variables with p value less 0.25 in bivariable analysis were carried out to identify candidate factors associated with outcome variable for multivariable analysis. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify associated factors & the strength of association was measured by Adjusted Odd Ratios with 95% CI at p-value of < 0.05.
Results: The finding showed 57.4% (95% CI 0.5266, 0.6214) newborn care practice was good. In the multivariable logistic regression analysis; mothers‟ educational status (AOR=0.025,95% CI:(0.005, 0.125)), (AOR=0.031, 95%CI:(0.009,0.106)), home visit by health extension workers (AOR=0.120,95% CI:(0.040,0.359)), number of live births (AOR=2.409,95%CI:(1.126,5.151)), and numbers of ANC visits (AOR=0.122,95% CI:(0.037,0.399)), were found to have statistically significant association with newborn care practice.
Conclusion: Empowering and capacity building of women are important for statically significant variables. Health programs focusing in newborn care practice and more research works should be conducted to promote good new born care practices in study area.
