Abstract:
Introduction: Birth preparedness and complication readiness is a relatively
common strategy employed in implementing safe motherhood programs which
highly affected by male partner participation. Even though their participation is
indispensable for safe motherhood; their level of involvement and the factors that
affecting it are not well studied. Therefore this study is conducted to assess the
level of the male partners� participation in birth preparedness and complication
readiness
Objectives: The aim of this research is to assess husband involvement on birth
preparedness and complication readiness, and associated factors among men
who have a pregnant or delivered wife in the last six weeks in Simada District,
south Gondar, Ethiopia 2020
Methods: A community based cross-sectional study was conducted among 628
participants. Cluster sampling technique was used to get representative samples
Kebeles were selected as a cluster by lottery method. An Intervieweradministered
questionnaire
was
used
to
collect
data.
The
data
were
interred
into
Epi-data
version4.2 and exported to Stata version14 for analyses. Bivariate and
multivariable logistic regression analyses were done to see the association of
independent with the dependent variable. P-value and adjusted odds ratios with
its corresponding 95% confidence intervals were used to determine the presence
and direction of association accordingly. .
Results: Nearly two thirds 62.42 % (95%CI: 58.56 � 66.13) of husbands
involved in birth preparedness and complication readiness. In multivariable
logistic regression analysis good economic status AOR= 3.08, 95%CI:1.23-7.70)
distance to health facility < 30 minutes by barefoot (AOR = 1.75, 95%CI: 1.07 �
2.79), wanted pregnancy (AOR = 2.06, 95%CI: 1.04 � 4.09), and having had
antenatal care visit (AOR = 3.68, 95%CI: 2.24 � 6.04) were statistically significant
with husbands involvement and complication readiness.Conclusion and recommendations: the prevalence of husband involvement in
birth preparedness and complication readiness was good. Factors such as good
economic status, short distance from the health facility, antenatal care visit, and
wanted pregnancy were found to have an association with husband involvement.
Ensuring accessibility of health centers in remote areas and strengthen focused
antenatal care visit need to be provided so as to improve the level of the
husbands� involvement in birth preparedness and complication readiness.
Key words: Male involvement, Birth preparedness, Complication readiness,
Factors, Simada District, Ethiopia
