Abstract:
Improved access to and utilization of quality of ANC services may contribute to positive
maternal and child health outcomes, making it achievable to reduce maternal mortality rates and
infant mortality rates. This study aimed to determining the prevalence of antenatal care
utilization and associated factors among women of Aneded woreda who give birth in the past 12
months before the survey.
Community based cross sectional combining both quantitative and qualitative study design with
total sample size of 415 is used. The data is entered and analyzed using statistical package for
social science version 20 and binary logistic regression model is used to see the association of
different variables with the outcome variable. Odds ratio at 95% confidence interval was used to
measure strength, and statistical significance of associations.
The overall mothers utlization of antenatal care and first ANC booking is 60.5%(55.4,65.3) and
45.1%(38.8,51.9) respectively. Multivariable analysis shows being rural resident, no pregnancy
complication, get health education about ANC, give birth at health center and traveling less than
or equal to 1 hour distance on foot from home to health center are significant factors for ANC
service utilization, and also being illiterate mother, having planned pregnancy and age of the
mother are determinants of first ANC booking.
In this study even though the result revealed that percentage of women who utilized ANC service
were greater than women who did not utilize; the difference is slightly lower as compared to the
regional and national averages and more efforts should be needed to improve ANC utilization
and first ANC booking of mother.
