Predictors Of Folic Acid Supplement Usage For Preventing Neural Tube Defects Among Women Following Antenatal Care Using Health Belief Model Constructes In Mekelle Tigray Ethiopia.

Background: Neural tube defects mostly happened in the first 28 days of pregnancy. In ourrncountry especially in the study area the prevalence is increasing which is 131 per 10,000 birthsrnand causes more of morbidity and mortality. But It’s known that around 72% of neural tuberndefects are preventable by taking adequate amount of folic acid. But in our country the practicernof folic acid supplementation at preconception period is very low which is 1.92%. So, it needsrnfurther improvement and identifying the factors because low utilization of folic acidrnsupplement mainly contributes for the development of neural tube defects rnObjective: To assess the factors associated with folic acid supplement usage among pregnantrnwomen following antenatal care using health belief model constructs in public health facilities rnof Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia in 2019. rnMethod: An institutional based cross-sectional study design was conducted in selected publicrnhealth facilities. The total number of study participants were 727. A Pre-tested interviewer rnadministered questioner were used to retrieve data on socio demographic factors, knowledgernand the health belief model constructs from the mothers who selected by systematic sampling.rnDescriptive statistics, bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analysis was done to seernthe association between the predictor and outcome variables. Variables which had P< 0.25rnwere fitted to the final model and variables with P

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