UNASSIGNED: Traditional healers are in the front line to give the mental healthcare service in developing countries like Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, different studies were done focusing on the role of traditional medicine and perception of the community toward traditional medicine. However, there is paucity of studies, which shows the level of mental health literacy among traditional healers. Therefore, this study intended to mental health literacy level of traditional healers in Jimma town, Ethiopia.
UNASSIGNED: A community-based cross-sectional study design was employed among 310 participants. To select the participants from Jimma town, a stratified random sampling method was utilized from August 1 to September 30, 2020. The Mental Health Literacy Questionnaire was used to assess mental health literacy for assessment of mental health literacy among traditional healers. The collected data were coded and entered into EpiData version 4.6 and exported to SPSS version 25.0 for analysis. Bivariate and multivariable linear regression was used for data analysis.
UNASSIGNED: The finding of this study showed that the samples of traditional healers found in Jimma town scored a total mean of 95.91 ± 3.0025 for mental health literacy. Age [β = -0.052 (95% CI: -0.078, -0.026)], year of experience [β = 0.095 (95% CI: 0.067, 0.123)], family history of mental illness [β = 1.709 (95% CI: 0.543, 2.360)], history of professional help seeking on mental illness [β = 0.501 (95% CI: 0.715, 2.288)], history of getting information of mental illness on media [β = 0.941 (95% CI: 0.345, 1.538)], training on mental health [β = 2.213 (995% CI: 1.520, 2.906)], history of treating mental illness [β = 1.676 (95% CI: 0.808, 2.544)], and informal education [β = -1.664 (95% CI: -2.081, -1.247)] were factors significantly associated with MHL.
UNASSIGNED: The mental health literacy of traditional healers mean score is lower than the mean score of other studies. Age, year of experience, training on mental illness, family history, history of professional help seeking, history of treating mental illness, information on mental illness, and informal education are significantly associated with mental health literacy. Therefore, structured training is very important to improve their level of mental health literacy.

BACKGROUND: Over 4.5 million women worldwide have used Implanon. It plays an important role in reducing unwanted conceptions, lowering maternal mortality, and enhancing child survival. As a result, the availability of family planning programmes encourages women to begin using contraception and encourages women who are already using family planning to continue using it. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that lead to implanon cessation among women in southwest, Ethiopia.
METHODS: A facility-based unmatched case-control study was conducted from February 01 to March 02, 2023. It included 348 participants, 174 cases, and 174 controls. The cases were selected consecutively, and the controls were selected using a systematic random sampling method. Data was collected through a structured, face-to-face interview and entered into Epi-data version 4.6 and SPSS version 25.0 for analysis. The confidence interval (CI) of 95 and the strength of the association were measured using an adjusted odds ratio. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
RESULTS: Women whose husbands have formal education [AOR = 0.33, 95% CI (0.121-0.0944)], women who have been counseled individually [AOR = 3.403 (1.390-8.3.32)], women who have been counseled for less than 5 min [AOR = 3.143, 95% CI (1.303-8.046)], and women who discuss Implanon insertion with their partner [AOR = 0.289, 95% CI (0.143-0.585)] were significantly associated with Implanon discontinuation.
CONCLUSIONS: Implanon discontinuation was predicted by the husband\'s education, the number of women counselled alone, the length of counselling, a conversation with the spouse, satisfaction with the service, and implanon side effects. The health care provider should increase counselling services, especially the length of implanon pregnancy, in accordance with the national family planning recommendations, to reduce early implanon removal.