Neonatal Hypothermia And Associated Factors Among New Born Admitted To Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Of Governmental Hospitals In Addis Ababa Ethiopia 2016

Introduction: Neonatal hypothermia is a worldwide problem and an important contributing factorrnto neonatal morbidity and mortality especially in low and middle income countries. Highrnprevalence of hypothermia has been reported from countries with the highest burden of neonatalrnmortality. Over 1.1 million neonatal deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and hypothermia is one ofrnthe contributing factors for this mortality; therefore, improving newborn survival throughrnappropriate thermal care is a major priority in child health today.rnObjective: To assess the prevalence of Neonatal hypothermia and associated factors among newrnborn admitted to NICU of governmental hospitals in Addis Ababa, 2016.rnMethods and materials: An institutional based cross sectional study was conducted from Marchrn30 to April 30, 2016. A total of 356 Neonates with their mother was selected by systematicrnrandom sampling technique and Axillary temperate of the new born was measured by digitalrnthermometer at point of admission. Data was cleaned manually, coded and entered into Epi -infornversion 3.5 and exported to SPSS version 20 software for analysis. Multiple logistic regression,rnAOR, 95% CI and p-value

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