Abstract:
Background: Despite the important role of printed Information Education Communication
materials in bringing the desired behavior change in prevention and control of HIV/AIDS,
the issue of utilization of these materials by health care providers for its prevention and
control was not subjected in scientific inquiry.
Objective: This study assessed the printed Information Education Communication materials
utilization and associated factors for HIV/AIDS prevention and control among health care
providers in health facilities of West Shewa zone of Oromia region, Ethiopia, 2022 G.C.
Methods: A Parallel mixed method was conducted by combining both quantitative and
qualitative researchs. The data was collected from 356 health care providers randomly
selected from the health facilities in west Shewa zone of Oromia region for quantitative part
and 13 purposively selected key informants were participated. Data were entered using
Epidata version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 26. Descriptive statistics were used to
calculate frequency means and logistic regression was used to identify predictors of IEC
material utilization in HIV/AIDS prevention and control. Qualitative data was transcribed,
translated, coded and thematization was done by using Atlas ti.7. Finally the result was
presented by triangulating the findings of quantitative and qualitative studies.
Result: This study revealed that 185 (65.4%) of participants have ever used printed IEC
materials for HIV/AIDS prevention and control. Sex (AOR=0.27, 95%CI=0.13-0.56,
PV=0.001), Institution of graduate (AOR=4.03, 95%CI=2.02-8.05, PV<0.001), having
training (AOR=2.3, 95%CI=1.10-5.11, PV=0.028), Materials availability (AOR=2.51,
95%CI=1.23-5.11, PV=0.011), knowledge (AOR=1.11,95%CI=1.01-1.24, PV=0.032),
attitude (AOR=3.32, 95%CI=2.04-5.39,PV<0.001) and perceived usefulness (AOR=3.89,
95%CI=2.66-5.68, PV<0.001) are independent predictors of printed IEC materials
utilization. Lack of adequate materials provision, inappropriateness of materials and poor
knowledge of health care providers on materials utilization are the reasons for not using
these materials.
Conclusion and Recommendation: the finding of this study implies that the the utilization of
printed IEC materials for HIV/AIDS prevention and control is low among health care
providers. Low materials provision, lack of enough training and the attention divert from
HIV/AIDs are among barriers identified by qualitative part of the study. Providing adequate
materials along with training for health professionals is a key to printed IEC materials
utilization.
