Prevalence Of Suboptimal Child Spacing Practice And Its Associated Factors Among Women Of Child Bearing Age In Serbo Townjimma Zone Southwest Ethiopia 2017

Introduction: Birth spacing is the time gaps between two consecutive life births. Optimalrnspacing until the next pregnancy is generally understood to refer to resting period that allows thernmother time to recover from pregnancy, and labor. Family planning programs have advocatedrnthree and more year’s intervals between births for infant and child health and survival. Recentrnresearch found that the health of mothers and infants with the birth interval of 3 to 5yrs is saferrnthan 2 yrs or less.rnObjectives: To assess Prevalence Of Suboptimal Child Spacing Practice And Its AssociatedrnFactors Among Women Of Child Bearing Age In Serbo Town,Jimma Zone Southwest Ethiopia,rn2017 Ethiopia, from March to April 2017.rnMethods: Community based cross sectional study design was used. Samples of 314 women werernselected using simple random sampling. Semi structured and pretested questionnaire was used inrna face to face interview to collect the data. Data was checked for completeness andrnanalyzedrnusing SPSS V.20. Bi-variable logistic regression and multi- variable regression were done forrnpredictor variables associated at p-value

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