ArticlePediatric health, medicine and therapeutics2021
Assessment of Practice and Factors associated with Sunlight Exposure of Infants among Mothers in Debre Berhan Town, North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
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- Practice and factors associated with sunlight exposure of infants among mothers in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Reproductive health · 2025Pooled it
- Sunlight exposure practice and its associated factors among infants in Ethiopia, systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Infants' Sunlight Exposure Practice and Associated Factors Among Mothers in Northwest Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Multilevel analysis of infant sunlight exposure practices among mothers in Mettu district Illubabor zone Oromia Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Practice and factors associated with neonatal sunlight exposure among mothers in Jigjiga City, Somali Regional State, Eastern Ethiopia.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Mothers Practices and Factors Affecting Sunlight Exposure of Their Infants in Adami Tulu Jido Kombolcha District, East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia, 2022: A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study.Global pediatric health · 2024Article
- Knowledge and practice of infant exposure to sunlight among mothers in the rural villages of Mettu district, southwest Ethiopia.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Attitudes of mothers attending public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to neonatal sunlight exposure: a cross-sectional study.BMJ paediatrics open · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundVitamin D deficiency is a common worldwide problem with its prevalence magnified in infants. Prevalence in infants is believed to range from 2.7% to 45% in different countries of the world. Appropriate sunlight exposure of skin is thought to be vital for the prevention of vitamin D deficiency. However, due to a dearth of study the practice of sunlight exposure is incompletely understood. Thus, assessing practice and factors affecting sunlight exposure of infants by mothers was relevant.
objectiveTo assess practice level and factors associated with sunlight exposure of infants by mothers in Debre Berhan town, North Showa, Ethiopia, 2019. MATERIALS AND
methodsA community-based cross-sectional study was conducted to collect relevant data among 530 mothers with infants at selected kebeles in Debre Berhan town. A simple random sampling technique was used to select kebeles and systematic sampling was complemented to identify study participant. Data were collected with interview using a pre-tested structured and semi-structured questionnaire. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regressions were run to examine the association among dependent and independent variable. Significant association was declared at P value ≤0.05.
resultsAll the mothers were interviewed and 65.7% of them had good practice in sunning of their infant. In multi-variable analysis, mothers who are housewives or government employees, have a maternal age of 33 and above, perceive that sunlight strengthen infant bones, perceive that sunlight makes their infants healthier, and who got information from health-care professionals were significantly associated with good practice in sunning of their infant. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION: Finding of this study indicated that 34.3% of participants have poor practice in sunning of infants. This is a pointer that sunlight exposure of infants still needs attention from the government and other concerned bodies.
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