Abstract:
Abstract
Introduction: Pregnancy-induced Hypertension (PIH) is the most prevalent
medical problem associated with pregnancy. It has been reported to affect 6–10% of
all pregnant women worldwide. Mother’s failure to seek information related to PIH
would increase the risk of dying from its complications.
Objective: This study aimed to assess PIH information seeking behavior and its
associated factors among pregnant women in rural Sekela district.
Method:
A Community-based cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted in
rural sekela woreda among pregnant women from May 15 to June 15, 2022. An
interviewer administrated structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. The
sample size was 635. It was calculated using the single population proportion
formula using 1.5 design effect, 10% non-response rate and the last selected
sample size was 635. A cluster sampling technique was used to select sampled
Kebeles. The data were entered using Epi-data 4.6 and exported to STATA version
14.1 for analysis. We conducted a descriptive analysis, bi-variable analysis and
multi-variable analysis to identify determinants of PIH information seeking.
Result: The proportion of PIH information seeking among pregnant women was
214 (35.43%). Pregnant mother’s age of 35 years and above (AOR =0.67, 95% CI
=.46, .97), resistance of family (AOR = 0.45, 95% CI=.29, .69), health care
satisfaction (AOR=1.7, 95% CI=1.1, 2.5), and perceived severity of PIH (AOR=1.6,
95% CI=1.1, 2.4) were significantly associated with PIH information seeking.
Conclusion: - According to our finding Information seeking related to PIH founds to
be low. The major source of PIH related information was health care providers.
Aged mothers, family resistance, mother’s satisfaction on health care service,
perceived severity of PIH were found to be associated with PIH information seeking.
Key words: PIH,
health information Seeking behavior, pregnant women
