Research Article
Newborn Care Practice and Associated Factors among Mothers of One-Month-Old Infants in Southwest Ethiopia
Table 1
Sociodemographic variables of mothers with babies of one-month-old in Hossana town, southwest Ethiopia, 2018 (
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| Variables () | Frequency () | Percent (%) |
| Age (year) | 15-24 | 76 | 18.0 | 25-34 | 289 | 68.5 | ≥35 | 57 | 13.5 | Religion | Protestant | 258 | 61.1 | Orthodox | 106 | 25.1 | Other | 58 | 13.7 | Ethnicity | Hadiya | 279 | 66.1 | Kembata | 60 | 14.2 | Other | 83 | 19.7 | Marital status | Married | 418 | 99.1 | Others | 4 | .9 | Educational level | Primary | 137 | 32.5 | College and above | 129 | 30.6 | Secondary | 112 | 26.5 | No formal education | 44 | 10.4 | Occupation | Housewife | 213 | 50.5 | Governmental employee | 117 | 27.7 | Others | 92 | 21.8 | Wealth index | Lowest | 261 | 61.8 | Middle | 115 | 27.3 | Highest | 46 | 10.9 |
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