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Adherence to Prophylactic Ferrous Sulphate and Associated Factors Among Pregnant Women Attending ANC Service in Public Health Facilities of Arba-Minch Town, Southern Ethiopia
Background: Ante natal care is a care given for pregnant mothers to ensure the safe progress of the pregnancy. According to the standard of the World health organization, a woman is expected to have at least four ante natal visits before the end of her pregnancy. The purpose of ante natal follow-up is for early identification and treatment of pregnancy related problems that can cost the life of both the mother and the growing fetus. Many health problems affecting varied communities in the world are directly related with deficiency of one or more nutrients. Anemia is a worldwide health problem even though its prevalence is much higher in third world countries especially among women who face an increase in iron demands targeted at satisfying iron requirements of the mother and the fetus. As primary prevention, pregnant women are advised to increase the intake of diets rich in iron such as meat, cereals and varied fruits. Anemia will end in multitudes of effects and complications unless early detection and treatment is there. The effect doubles when it coincides with pregnancy. Currently, there is no sufficient information on the magnitude of adherence to prophylactic ferrous sulphate supplementation among pregnant women attending Ante natal care in most public health facilities of Ethiopia and the study area in particular. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the adherence to prophylactic ferrous sulphate among pregnant women attending Ante natal care in Public health facilities of Arba-Minch town, southern Ethiopia .The general objective of this study was to assess adherence to prophylactic ferrous sulphate among pregnant women attending ante natal service in Public health facilities of Arba-Minch town,2016. In the method section, a health institution based cross-sectional study was conducted in Public health facilities of Arba-Minch Town among 350 pregnant women who have visited public health facilities of Arba Minch town during the study period .Primary data was collected by using structured interviewer administered Amharic version questionnaire. After the data were fully entered to Epi-info version 3.5.1, the analysis was made by using SPSS version 20.0. A bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to identify factors associated with adherence. According to this study, iron intake for a minimum of three months during the whole course of pregnancy was 83(24.06%). In the multivariable analysis, obstetric characteristics were associated with adherence to prophylactic ferrous sulphate supplementation .There was significant association between adherence and gestational age (AOR=8.363 and CI=2.509-27.877).The odds of adherence was 8.363 times higher in the third trimester compared to the respondents in the second trimester. There was also significant association between adherence and the number of ante natal follow-ups (AOR= 2.321 and CI=1.087-4.955). The odds of adherence among the respondents with more than four antenatal follow -ups was 2.321 times higher compared to the respondents with less than or equal to four ante natal follow- ups. As the adherence rate to prophylactic ferrous sulphate among women attending public health facilities in Arba Minch Town was only 24.06%, all health professionals should continuously inform and encourage the pregnant women to increase Ante natal visits
Quality of Perioperative Informations Provided and its Associated Factors Among Adult Patients Who Undergone Surgery in Public Hospitals of Gamo &Gofa Zones: A Mixed Design Study, Southern Ethiopia, 2019
Background: Surgery is one of biggest health related decisions done in one’s life with an outcome ranging in both extremes. It do have three phases. Preoperative, Intraoperative and Postoperative phases. All the phases are interlinked and affect one another. Surgical outcomes are found to be affected by range of factors. Some of the factors could be social, financial, medical, immunological, and etc. Surgery as a professional procedure, is bound with multiples of concerns including clinical, professional, moral, Ethical and legal aspects. Appropriate health informations are an indispensable component of health care as well as surgery. Noting is known about the quality of perioperative informations provided in Public Hospitals of Gamo and Gofa Zones. Therefore, the purpose of this study will be to assess the quality of perioperative informations provided and its associated factors among adult patients who undergone surgery in public hospitals of Gamo and Gofa Zones.
Method and materials: A facility based mixed design study was conducted from March-April 2019 in Arba minch, Chencha and Sawla Hospitals, Southern Ethiopia.
A simple random sampling technique was employed to select 410 study participants among admitted adult patients who undergone surgery. Bivariate logistic regression analysis was done to identify candidates for multivariable logistic regression analysis. Explanatory variables with a p-value of less than 0.25 in the bivariate logistic regression analysis were included in the initial logistic model of multivariable logistic regression. Finally, statistically significant associations of variables were determined based on an Adjusted Odds ratio with 95% confidence interval and p-value <0.05.
Result: the proportion of patients who received good quality perioperative informations are only 36.6%. In the multivariable analysis; Frequency of Hospital Visit [AOR=2.604, 95% CI: 1.669-4.063], Reasons for Hospital Visit [AOR = 2.370; 95% CI: 1.356-4.144], Previous Surgery [AOR = 2.370; 95% CI: 1.449-3.876], number of Previous Surgery [AOR = 1.808; 95% CI: 1.097-2.981], Place of Surgery[AOR =0.333; 95% CI:0.152-0.726], Surgical Professional [AOR =2.007; 95% CI:1.096-3.677] and Consenter [AOR =7.408; 95% CI:4.453-12.325] were significantly associated with the provision of good quality perioperative informations. Conclusion: According to this study, the proportion of patients who received good quality perioperative informations are only 36.6%.Therefore, all the concerned bodies must strive to improve the quality of informations to adult surgical patients