DETERMINANTS OF ANTENATAL CARE SERVICE UTILIZATION AMONG MOTHERS IN ANEDED WOREDA, AMHARA REGION, NORTH WEST ETHIOPIA

BELAYNESH ABITIE TEREFE; ATSEDE DESTA TEGEGNE

doi:10.22159/ijhs.2022.v10i1.45406

Authors

BELAYNESH ABITIE TEREFE Department of Population Studies, Collage of Social Science and Humanities, University of Gondar, Ethiopia.
ATSEDE DESTA TEGEGNE Department of Population Studies, Collage of Social Science and Humanities, University of Gondar, Ethiopia.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22159/ijhs.2022.v10i1.45406

Keywords:

ANC utilization, Aneded woreda, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Abstract

Objective: This study is aimed to determining the prevalence of antenatal care (ANC) utilization and associated factors among women of Aneded woreda who give birth in the past 12 months before the survey.

Methods: Community-based cross-sectional combining both quantitative and qualitative study design with total sample size of 415 is used. The data are entered and analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 20 and binary logistic regression model is used to see the association of different variables with the outcome variable. Odds ratio at 95% confidence interval was used to measure strength, and statistical significance of associations.

Results: The overall mothers utilization of ANC is 60.5% (55.4, 65.3). Multivariable analysis shows being rural resident, no pregnancy complication, get health education about ANC, give birth at health center, and traveling less than or equal to 1 h distance on foot from home to health center that is significant factors for ANC service utilization.

Conclusion: In this study, even though the result revealed that percentage of women who utilized ANC service were greater than women who did not utilize; the difference is slightly lower as compared to the regional and national averages and more efforts should be needed to improve ANC utilization of mother.

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