Self-management practice of minor pregnancy disorders And associated factors among pregnant women attending anten Atal clinic at tulu bollo general hospital, southwest shewa, Ethiopia

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.