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Birhannu Jikamo
Hawassa University College of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Abstract Background: In 2009, in Hadiya zone reported that establishment of Urban Health Extension Program (UHEP) which is subsequent declaration of after the country of Ethiopia. Major contribution of the declared UHEP is to provide accessible service to the potentially vulnerable groups of <5children pregnant women. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the utilization and associated factors of the urban health extension program services in Hossana Town, Hadiya Zone, southern Ethiopia, 2018 Methods: we conducted community based cross-sectional study in Hossana town, Hadiya Zone southern Ethiopia. Households were recruited by using systematic random sampling technique and study participants also by using random sampling techniques. A total of 403 study participants were participated in this study. Strength of measure of association between explanatory variables with outcome variable reported using the Odds Ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval. Bivariate and multivariate binary logistic regression analysis was performed to identify predictors. P-value < 0.05 used to identify factors significantly associated with outcome variable. Results: Out of 403 households, 397(98.5%) of response rate obtained. The mean score of community knowledge about the utilization of urban health extension program service (UHEP) was 2.352 (SD ±1.156. Regarding knowledge towards UHEP, of 166 (42%) of the respondents had good knowledge towards UHEP service while 231 (58%) had poor knowledge towards UHEP service utilization. The total number of households which graduated as a model family was 79 (19.9%). In the adjusted multivariate model, those respondents in the age group of 36-45 year were 3.73 times(AOR = 3.73; 95% CI:1.04-3.37) more likely to be utilized health extension program services as compared with those respondents in the age group of 18-24year. Those households which graduated as a model family were 2.2 times (AOR = 2.18; 95% CI: 1.36- 3.51) higher odds of utilized health extension program service as compared with those households which didn’t graduated as a model family. Conclusions: The coverage of utilization of urban health extension program service was low in the study setting compared with previous study. There were also identified predictors that were associated with utilization of urban health extension program service.
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Urban Health Extension Program, Household, Utilization, Hosanna, South Ethiopia
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Birhannu Jikamo
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Abstract Background: In 2009, in Hadiya zone reported that establishment of Urban Health Extension Program (UHEP) which is subsequent declaration of after the country of Ethiopia. Major contribution of the declared UHEP is to provide accessible service to the potentially vulnerable groups of <5children pregnant women. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the utilization and associated factors of the urban health extension program services in Hossana Town, Hadiya Zone, southern Ethiopia, 2018 Methods: we conducted community based cross-sectional study in Hossana town, Hadiya Zone southern Ethiopia. Households were recruited by using systematic random sampling technique and study participants also by using random sampling techniques. A total of 403 study participants were participated in this study. Strength of measure of association between explanatory variables with outcome variable reported using the Odds Ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval. Bivariate and multivariate binary logistic regression analysis was performed to identify predictors. P-value < 0.05 used to identify factors significantly associated with outcome variable. Results: Out of 403 households, 397(98.5%) of response rate obtained. The mean score of community knowledge about the utilization of urban health extension program service (UHEP) was 2.352 (SD ±1.156. Regarding knowledge towards UHEP, of 166 (42%) of the respondents had good knowledge towards UHEP service while 231 (58%) had poor knowledge towards UHEP service utilization. The total number of households which graduated as a model family was 79 (19.9%). In the adjusted multivariate model, those respondents in the age group of 36-45 year were 3.73 times(AOR = 3.73; 95% CI:1.04-3.37) more likely to be utilized health extension program services as compared with those respondents in the age group of 18-24year. Those households which graduated as a model family were 2.2 times (AOR = 2.18; 95% CI: 1.36- 3.51) higher odds of utilized health extension program service as compared with those households which didn’t graduated as a model family. Conclusions: The coverage of utilization of urban health extension program service was low in the study setting compared with previous study. There were also identified predictors that were associated with utilization of urban health extension program service.
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