Abstract:
Background: The minor disorders of pregnancy are a series of commonly experienced disorders most
ly affecting women during pregnancy. Across the world, due to a lack of self-management practice
and less attention to minor disorders of pregnancy, pregnant women are exposed to major disorders o
f pregnancy, a negative impact on quality of life, and pregnancy outcomes. Most previous studies gave
attention to the knowledge of minor pregnancy disordersand limited self-management practices of
minor pregnancy disorders.
Objective: To assess the self-management practice of minor pregnancy disorders and associated
factors among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at Tulu Bolo General Hospital, Southwest
Shewa, Ethiopia, 2022.
Methods:A facility based cross sectional study design was conducted from August,1 to September 30,20
22 at Tulu Bolo General Haspital Southwest Shewa,Ethiopia. Among 403, pregnant women
wereselected using a systematic random sampling technique. A structured and interviewer-administered
questionnaire was used to collect the data.Data were entered in Epi Data version 3.1 and exported to
SPSS window version 26 for analysis. Bivariate and multivariable analyses were done to identify
variablesassociated withthe self-management practice of minor pregnancy disorder in the binary
logistic regression model. A statistical significance was declared at P-value < 0.05.Finally, tables,
graphs, and narration were used to present the data.
Results: 397 study participants were included with response rate of 98.5%. This study revealed
that 29.3% (95%CI:24%, 34%) of women had good selfmanagement practices for minor pregnancy di
sorders. Age of the pregnant women (AOR=4.4;95%CI:1.64,11.60), household wealth status(AOR=3.6;
95%CI:1.68,7.97),women’s education status(AOR=5.8;95%CI:2.16,16.03) and (AOR=4.11;95%CI:1.3
0,12.97),women’s occupation(AOR=2.44;95%CI:1.09,5.45) and knowledge on minor pregnancy disord
ers (AOR=2.06;95%CI:1.12,3.79) were identified as statistically significant factors.
Conclusions and recommendations: These findings show that more than two in sevenpregnant women
were found to have had good self-management practicesfor minor pregnancy disorders. Hence,
counseling and enhancing their knowledge on self-management should provide to pregnant women to
improve their self-management practice of minor pregnancy disorders.
