ArticleBMC pregnancy and childbirth2025
Self-care practice and associated factors among postpartum mothers at Karat town, Konso zone, southern, Ethiopia: 2022.
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- Self-Care Practices for Puerperal Sepsis Prevention and Associated Factors Among Postnatal Women in Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS CarePooled it
- Self-care practices for puerperal sepsis prevention and their determinants among postpartum women: a community-based cross-sectional study in Halaba Town, Central Ethiopia.Primary health care research & development · 2026Article
- Feasibility, acceptability and sustainability of family-led postnatal care model: a multisite mixed study in Ada'a District, Ethiopia.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Knowledge of puerperal sepsis, self-care practices of puerperal sepsis prevention and associated factors among postpartum women in the Gurage zone, Central Ethiopia: Multicenter study.SAGE open medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundEvery day, at least 700 women die from complications related to pregnancy, childbirth, and the first 42 days of postpartum period. One of the contributing elements to these issues is a lack of focus on self-care practices during the postpartum period. Thus, understanding the relationship between self-care practices and maternal health is crucial for saving mothers' and babies' lives. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess level of postpartum self-care practice and associated factors among mothers at Karat Town, Konso Zone, Southern, Ethiopia, 2022.
methodsA community-based cross-sectional study was conducted on postpartum mothers who gave birth in the last six weeks in Karat Town from August 1 to September 15, 2022. The systematic random sampling was used to select 419 study participants. Data was collected using a pretest structured questionnaire through a face-to-face interview, entered and cleaned using EPI Info version 4.6, and exported to SPSS version 25 for analysis. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression was employed to assess the association of the variables, and a P-value less than 0.05 was declared as statistically significant.
resultsOut of 419 mothers 140(33.4%) were good postpartum self-care practice. Having an antenatal care visit (AOR = 2.82; 95% CI = 1.394-5.709), institutional delivery (AOR = 2.42; 95% CI = 1.18-4.93), accompanying a husband in antenatal care (AOR = 2.41; 95% CI = 1.37-4.24), counseling by healthcare providers during home visits (AOR = 2.28; 95% CI = 1.24-4.19), and healthcare provider counseling at discharge (AOR = 3.25; 95%CI = 1.72-6.13), and knowledge of participants (AOR = 3.61;95%CI = 2.11-6.19) were factors significantly associated with postpartum self-care.
conclusionThis study showed that self-care practices during postpartum period were low. Inspiring mothers to Attending ANC visits, institutional delivery services, accompanied husbands in antenatal care, strengthening provider's health education at discharge and during home visit, and enhancing knowledge of participants are acceptable manner may improve the postpartum self-care practice.
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