Awareness and Its Associated Factors of Obstetrics Fistula among Antenatal Care Attendees in Injibara Town Health Institutions, Awi Zone, North West, Ethiopia, 2019
Table 3
Distribution of the study participants according to awareness of obstetrics fistula in governmental health facilities of Injibara town, North West Ethiopia, 2019, ().
Variables
Categories
Frequency
Percentage
Awareness
Good awareness
163
39.5
Poor awareness
250
60.5
Source of information
Media
65
32.5
Health professional
80
40
From school
32
16
Others
23
11.5
Awareness of OBF risk factors
Yes
175
42.4
No
238
57.6
Which risk factors of obstetrics fistula do you know?
Female gentile mutilation
121
29.3
Early marriage
144
34.9
Early pregnancy
139
33.6
Un spaced childbirth
86
20.8
Prolonged labor
137
33.2
Home delivery
153
37.1
Malnutrition of the mothers
63
15.3
Not using FP methods
99
24.0
Awareness of symptoms of obstetrics fistula
Yes
135
32.7
No
278
67.3
Symptoms of obstetrics fistula
Urinary incontinency
134
32.5
Faecal incontinency
70
17.0
Vulvar irritation
47
11.4
Awareness of availability of obstetrics fistula treatment
