Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sunlight Exposure of Infants among Mothers Attending in Governmental Health Facilities in Farta District, South Gondar Zone, North West Ethiopia, 2018

Table 4

Practice of respondents on sunlight exposure of infant in Farta woreda, Northwest Ethiopia, 2018.

Item	Category	Number	%
Do you expose your child for sunlight	Yes	176	51.98
	No	163	48.02
Number of day of sunlight exposure per week	Every day	80	45.7
	2	28	15.9
	3–4	43	24.4
	5–6	25	10.6
Starting day of sunlight exposure	Within 5 days	17	7.2
	5–10 days	20	8.5
	10–15 days	91	38.7
	After 15 days	107	45.5
Time of sunlight exposure	Before 4 h	129	73
	4–7 h	38	21.5
	7–10 h	9	5.5
Duration of sunlight exposure	<15 min	59	33.5
	15–20	38	21.5
	20 min–1 h	69	38.5
	Above 1 h	10	5.7
Do you cover the infants body when you exposed	Yes	169	75
	No	56	25
Reason for you cover	To prevent skin damage	44	19.3
	To prevent from evil eye	98	55.7
	Other	27	25
Reason of respondents for not exposing	Fear of blackness	4	2.4
	Lack of knowledge	76	46.6
	Fear of evil eye	59	36.2
	Fear of pneumonia	5	3.1
	Lack of time	5	3.1