Assessment of Provision of Women Friendly Care and Associated Factors amongPostnatal Mothers at Three Public Hospitals of Jimma Zone, Oromia Region,Ethiopia, 2016
2017
Background: Women friendly care is an approach to care
giving with the goal of creating an enabling environment at
all level to improve women’s access to safe motherhood and
reproductive health services.
Objectives: to assess the provision of women friendly care
and associated factors among postnatal mothers at three
public hospitals of Jimma zone
Methods: A facility based cross-sectional quantitative study
design was conducted on 264 respondents. Systematic
random sampling technique was used for selecting study
subjects. Pre-tested structured questionnaires were used to
collect data from April-May 2016.The data was entered,
cleaned and analyzed by using SPSS version 21. Binary and
Multivariable logistic regressions were used for data
analysis.
Results: A total of 264 Jimma University specialized, Shenen
Gibe and Limmu Genet Hospital respondents participated in
the study with the response rate of 99.24%. More than half
of respondents’, 147 (56.1%) main means of transport to
health facility was walk/on foot, and 128 (48.9%) of them
needed 30 minutes to reach there. From the total
respondents, 186 (71%) had received the provision of
women friendly care at ANC, Delivery and Postnatal wards.
Variables found to be statistically associated to provision of
women friendly care at p<0.05 were: Main means of
transport (public transport) (AOR=3.99, 95 CI [1.98, 8.05],
Left alone in labor (AOR=0.41, 95 CI [0.19, 0.87], and were
you treated badly (AOR=0.054, 95 CI [0.023, 0.13].
Conclusion and Recommendations: The provision of
women friendly care at study area among respondents was
71% and the factors statistically associated to it were:-main
means of transport left alone in labor and treated badly.
Each health facilities’ administrative body being in
collaboration with regional health bureau and regional
government must facilitate the health service delivery system to be as accessible as possible for pregnant,
delivering and postnatal mothers.
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