背景:适当寻求医疗保健的做法对于减少严重和危及生命的儿童疾病很重要。在夏尔镇,人们对母亲在儿童疾病上寻求医疗保健的行为知之甚少。
目的:评估夏尔镇有5岁以下儿童的母亲的现代健康寻求行为和相关因素。
方法:研究背景是夏尔镇,西北提格雷,埃塞俄比亚。
方法:进行了一项基于社区的横断面研究,通过系统随机抽样技术对504对母婴进行了访谈。数据是通过采访者管理的半结构化问卷收集的。数据被编码,输入,使用EPIDATA版本3.1进行清理和编辑,并导出到社会科学统计包(SPSS)版本22.0进行分析。为了确定重要的变量,采用二元逻辑回归。在多变量逻辑回归中,在95%CI(置信区间)具有p值0.05的变量被认为具有统计学意义。
结果:在这项研究中,约76.2%(72.1%,80%)的母亲寻求现代医疗保健。在P值为0.05的多变量逻辑回归分析中,年龄≥28岁的照顾者(AOR[调整后的比值比]:1.65;95%CI[1.02,2.68]),中学及以上教育水平(AOR:0.44;95%CI[0.23,0.86]),儿童每日喂养8次(AOR:2.77;95%CI[1.75,4.38])和感知的疾病严重程度(AOR:2;95%CI[1.07,3.82])在统计学上与现代寻求医疗保健行为相关.
结论:建议通过信息在社区层面加强医疗保健服务,教育和沟通/行为改变策略,以改善母亲寻求医疗保健的行为。
BACKGROUND: The practice of appropriate health care-seeking is important to reduce severe and life-threatening childhood illnesses. In Shire town, little is known about the mother\'s health care-seeking behaviour on childhood illness.
OBJECTIVE: To assess modern health-seeking behaviour and associated factors of mothers having under 5-years old children in Shire town.
METHODS: The study setting was Shire town, northwest Tigray, Ethiopia.
METHODS: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted to interview 504 mother-child pairs by systematic random sampling technique. Data were collected through interviewer-administered semi-structured questionnaires. Data were coded, entered, cleaned and edited using EPIDATA version 3.1 and export to Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) Version 22.0 for analysis. To identify the significant variables, binary logistic regression was employed. Variables with p-value 0.05 at 95% CI (confidence interval) in multivariate logistic regression were considered statistically significant.
RESULTS: In this study, around 76.2% (72.1, 80) of mothers sought modern health care. In a multivariate logistic regression analysis at a p-value of 0.05, caregivers with age of ≥ 28 years (AOR [adjusted odds ratios]: 1.65; 95% CI [1.02, 2.68]), educational level of secondary school and above (AOR: 0.44; 95% CI [0.23, 0.86]), child feeding per day 8 times (AOR: 2.77; 95% CI [1.75, 4.38]) and perceived severity of illness (AOR: 2; 95% CI [1.07, 3.82]) were statistically associated with modern health care-seeking behaviour.
CONCLUSIONS: Strengthen healthcare services is recommended at the community level through information, education and communication/behavioural change strategies to improve the mother\'s health care-seeking behaviour.