Abstract
Purpose: Globally, more than 2.7 million new-borns die before reaching neonatal age every year and most of the new born deaths occur at home. Half of these surprisingly occur within the first 24 h of delivery and 75% occur in the early neonatal period. Promotion of essential new-born care practice is one of a cheap approach to improve health outcomes of new-born babies. Thus, this study was aimed to assess essential new born care practice and associated factors among mothers who gave birth last 6 months in East Badewacho woreda, Hadiyya zone. Patient and methods: Community based cross sectional study design was done from March 1 to April 30, 2018. The sampled population were 399 mothers who gave live births within the last six months prior to actual data collection using multistage random sampling technique. Data was collected by using semi-structured questionnaire and entered in Epi-data version 3.1 then exported into SPSS version 21 for analysis. Binary logistic regression analysis with 95 % CI was carried out. Result: Less than half (34.1%) of the mothers were utilized essential new born care. Educational status of the husband [AOR=0.24,CI(0.089,0.64)] and [AOR=0.314,CI(0.126,0.78)], place of delivery [AOR=0.024,CI(0.009,0.068)] and knowledge on essential newborn care [AOR=2.03,CI(1.223,3.371) were significant predictors for utilization of essential newborn care. Conclusion: The study result revealed that practice of essential newborn care in East Badewacho Woreda was low. Therefore, enhance linkage of health centers with health posts to increase ANC, institutional delivery and PNC service utilization.
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