Abstract:
Background; Half a million women die annually due to pregnancy and childbirth
related events. In addition, three hundred million women in the world currently suffer
from long-term or short-term illness brought about by pregnancy or childbirth.
Objective; to assess health care seeking and its associated factors in rural and
urban Mother of Burie woredas.
Methodology; A cross -sectional community based quantitative study was
conducted from June to December 2010 among rural and urban Mothers of Burie
woreda west Gojjam on 678 respondents. Multistage sampling techniques were used
to select the respondent’s. Random sampling technique was used to select each
household. Structured and pretested Amharic questionnaire was used for data
collection. During data collocation continues supervision were undertaken by
supervisors to keep data quality
Result, Total of 637 respondents was interviewed. Of which 346(60.7%) seek health
care for ANC. When health care seeking of mothers for ANC was adjusted for socio
demographic variables Educational status (AOR=3.330 and 95% CI=1.478-7.504)
and Educational status of the husband (AOR=3.376 and 95% CI 1.298-8.784) have
significant association. Only 175(32.2%) gave birth at health institution, when these
were adjusted for other socio demographic variables, educational status of the
husband has significant association with institutional delivery (AOR=3.586 and 95%
CI 1.690-7.608).
conclusions; Out of the interviewed mothers 60.7% attained ANC for their last
pregnancy, 32.2% gave birth their last birth at health institution and 58.6% attained
PNC for their last birth .Maternal age, their educational status, their resident, marital
status of mother, occupation of mother, husbands educational status, husbands
occupation have significant association with getting institutional delivery, ANC follow
up, and PNC service.
