Research Article
Healthcare-Seeking Behavior and Associated Factors for Newborn Danger Signs among Mothers Who Gave Birth in the Last 12 Months in Anlemo District
Table 5
Mothers healthcare-seeking behavior in Anlemo district, southern Ethiopia, 2019.
| | Variables | Categories | No (percent) |
| | Mothers who have faced newborn illness (n = 318) | Yes | 275 (86.5) | | No | 43 (13.5) |
| | Healthcare-seeking behavior (n = 275) | Yes | 95 (34.5) | | No | 180 (65.5) |
| | Place of medical healthcare-seeking (n = 95) | Health post | 12 (12.6) | | Health center | 51 (53.7) | | Gov’t hospital | 23 (24.2) | | Private health facility | 9 (9.5) |
| | Sought to nonmedical care (n = 180) | Traditional | 98 (54.4) | | Home remedy | 38 (21.1) | | Sought spiritual | 24 (13.3) | | Nothing | 12 (6.7) | | Others | 8 (4.4) |
| | Reason for not seeking care at HF (n = 180) | Herbal treatment best | 79 (43.9) | | Long distance | 23 (12.8) | | Negligent health workers | 21 (11.7) | | Case not series | 27 (15.0) | | Work over load | 18 (10.0) | | Evil spirit case | 12 (6.7) |
| | Decision-making NBDS (n = 296) | Father alone | 86 (29.0) | | Mother alone | 73 (24.7) | | Both | 137 (46.3) |
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