Assessment Of Motherscare Givers Health Care Seeking Behavior For Childhood Illness In Rural Ensaro District North Shoa Zone Amhara Region Ethiopia 2014

Introduction: The UN (United Nation) Millennium Development Goals (MDG 4) calls forrnEthiopia to reduce child mortality by a two-third by the year 2015. The practice of appropriaternhealth care seeking has a great potential to reduce the occurrence of severe and life-threateningrnchildhood illnesses. However, varieties of factors have been identified as the leading causes ofrnpoor utilization of primary health care services. Poor socio-economic status, lack of physicalrnaccessibility, attitude to modern treatment, low literacy level of the mothers, large family size,rnnumber of symptoms, previous experience of child death, and perceived severity of illness werernthe predictors of care seeking behaviorrnObjective: To assess mothers/care givers health care seeking behavior and its determinants forrnchildhood illnessesrnMethodology: The study employed both quantitative and qualitative data collection methodsrnwith face to face prepared questionnaire for quantitative and focus group discussion forrnqualitative study from April 11 to May 10/2014. For quantitative data template was prepared andrnthe data was entered, categorized, coded, and summarized using EPI 3.5.3 and transformed tornSPSS version 20.00 for further analysis. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysisrnwas done to see the association of each categories of variable with the outcome variable.rnSignificance was checked at 95% CI with p-value

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