Prevalence and Associated Factors of Early Postnatal Care Service Use Among Mothers Who Had Given Birth Within the Last 12 Months in Adigrat Town, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, 2018

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Figure 1 Schematic presentation of sampling procedure about early post natal care service utilization among mothers given birth in Adigrat town, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018. To get the study participants, first 4 kebeles were selected by lottery method from the 6 kebeles in Adigrat town. The number of woman who gave birth in the past 12 months in each kebele were; kebele 01 (200), kebele 02 (170), kebele 04 (220), kebele06 (150). The total sample size of 481 was distributed proportionate allocation to size to each kebele. Finally, the participants were selected by simple random sampling.

Table 1 Socio-Demographic Characteristics versus Early Post Natal Care Service Utilization Among Mothers Who Gave Birth in Adigrat Town, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018

Variables	Category	Early Post Natal Care Use
		Yes		No
		Frequency	Percentage	Frequency	Percentage
Age of mother	15–19	9	39.10%	14	60.90%
	20–24	45	39.50%	69	60.50%
	25–29	63	37.70%	104	62.30%
	30–34	28	29.80%	66	70.20%
	≥35	19	23.80%	61	76.30%
Religion	Orthodox	119	35.20%	219	64.80%
	Muslim	19	23.20%	63	76.80%
	Protestant	9	39.10%	14	60.90%
	Catholic	17	48.60%	18	51.40%
Ethnicity	Tigray	145	32.90%	296	67.10%
	Oromo	16	51.60%	15	48.40%
	Amara	3	50.00%	3	50.00%
Mothers educational status	No formal education	15	18.10%	68	81.90%
	Primary school	41	38.00%	67	62.00%
	Secondary school	83	50.90%	80	49.10%
	College and above	25	20.20%	99	79.80%
Husbands educational status	No formal education	8	20.50%	31	79.50%
	Primary school	35	39.80%	53	60.20%
	Secondary school	55	36.40%	96	63.60%
	College and above	66	33.00%	134	67.00%

Table 2 Obstetrics and Reproductive Characteristics of Mothers versus Early Post Natal Care Service Utilization Among Mothers Who Gave Birth in Adigrat Town, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018

Variables	Early Post Natal Care Use
		Yes		No
		Frequency	Percentage	Frequency	Percentage
History of abortion	Yes	58	34.70%	109	65.30%
	No	106	34.10%	205	65.90%
Condition of pregnancy	Planned and supported	148	41.20%	211	58.80%
	Unplanned but supported	11	12.50%	77	87.50%
	Unplanned and unsupported	5	16.10%	26	83.90%
Number of ANC visits	<4	15	11.60%	114	88.40%
	≥4	147	42.50%	199	57.50%
Hours stay in hospital	>24hours	31	47.00%	35	53.00%
	<6hours	100	35.50%	182	64.50%
	6–24hours	33	25.40%	97	74.60%
Mode of delivery	Vaginal delivery	99	32.20%	208	67.80%
	Assisted with Instrumental	31	39.20%	48	60.80%
	Cecerean section	34	37.00%	58	63.00%
Previous early postnatal care use	Yes	65	42.80%	87	57.20%
	No	99	30.40%	227	69.60%

Table 3 Health Institution and Provider-Related Characteristics Among Mothers Who Gave Birth in Adigrat Town, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018

Variables	EPNC
	Category	Yes		No
Access to transportation	Yes	151	34.30%	289	65.70%
	No	13	34.20%	25	65.80%
Health professional appoint you for EPNC after discharge	Yes	148	35.30%	271	64.70%
	No	16	27.10%	43	72.90%
Ever heard about early post natal care services	Yes	155	44.80%	191	55.20%
	No	9	6.80%	123	93.20%
Distance	<1hour	146	44.80%	180	55.20%
	≥1hour	18	11.80%	134	88.20%
Place of birth	Home delivery	5	20.80%	19	79.20%
	Institution delivery	159	35.00%	295	65.00%
Birth attendant	Health care professional	158	35.30%	290	64.70%
	Health extension worker	3	30.00%	7	70.00%
	Other	3	15.00%	17	85.00%

Figure 2 Reasons for not to use early post natal care service utilization among mothers given birth in Adigrat, town, tigray,ethiopia,2018. Out of respondents who did not visit PNC within one week of delivery, (21.6%) and sixty two (15.9%) were not utilized PNC within one week because of secularism and health care provider not in good manner respectively.

Table 4 Factors Associated with Early Post Natal Care Service Utilization Among Mothers Who Gave Birth in Adigrat Town, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018

Variables	EPNC
	Category	No	Yes	COR(95%,CI)	AOR(95%,CI)
Distance traveled on foot	<1hour	180(55.2%)	146(44.8%)	6.04(3.53–10-35)	5.05(2.45–10.42)
	≥1hour	134(88.2%)	18(11.8%)	1	1
Number of ANC visits	<4	114(88.4%)	15(11.6%)	0.17(0.10–0.31)	0.122(0.05–0.25)
	≥4	199(57.5%)	147(42.5%)	1	1
Monthly income of hose holds	<500	30(65.2%)	16(34.8%)	1	1
	500–1999	31(63.3%)	18(36.7%)	1.08(0.47–2.52)	7.97(2.42–26.26)
	2000–3999	102(65.0%)	55(35.0%)	1.01(0.507–2.01)	2.72(0.92–8.04)
	4000–6999	61(55.0%)	50(45.0%)	1.53(0.75–3.13)	3.30(1.42–7.67)
	≥7000	90(78.3%)	25(21.7%)	0.52(0.24–1.10)	1.34(0.57–3.15)
Age of mothers	15–19	14(60.9%)	9(39.1%)	2.06(0.77–5.51)	9.34(1.73–50.27)
	20–24	69(60.5%)	45(39.5%)	2.09(1.10–3.96)	6.50(2.29–18.41)
	25–29	104(62.3%)	63(37.7%)	1.94(1.06–3.55)	6.23(2.38–16.33)
	30–34	66(70.2%)	28(29.8%)	1.36(0.69–2.68)	2.24(0.81–6.18)
	≥35	61(76.3%)	19(23.8%)	1	1
Ever heard about early post natal care services	Yes	191(55.2%)	155(44.8%)	11.09(5.45–22.54)	16.38(6.23–43.07)
	No	123(93.2%)	9(6.8%)	1	1
Previous early post natal care	Yes	87(57.2%)	65(42.8%)	1.71(1.15–2.55)	2.60(1.41–4.77)
	No	227(69.6%)	99(30.4%)	1	1
Home visit after discharge	Yes	163(82.7%)	34(17.3%)	0.24(0.15–0.37)	0.21(0.11–0.40)
	No	151(53.7%)	130(46.3%)	1	1
Delivery complication	Yes	77(55.4%)	62(44.6%)	1.87(1.24–2.81)	5.57(2.85–10.89)
	No	237(69.9%)	102(30.1%)	1	1