Abstract:
morbidity and mortality. Recognizing major contributors of neonatal hypothermia is very important
in designing preventing methods which was the objective of our study. This was an institutionbased
cross-sectional study conducted on 339 neonates admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
of University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital over 6months. Study participants
were selected using systematic random sampling techniques and both bivariate and multivariate
logistic regression analyses were used to identify contributors and p-value of < 0.05 was considered
statistically significant. In our study, the prevalence of neonatal hypothermia was 70.05%. Low birth
weight (AOR = 8.35, 95%CI: 2.34, 29.80), bathing within 24 h (AOR = 3.96, 95%CI: 1.06, 14.78),
absence of head cover (AOR = 3.11, 95%CI: 1.16, 8.38), C/S delivery ( AOR = 8.54, 95%CI: 2.01, 36.39),
night time delivery (AOR = 2.92, 95%CI: 1.29, 6.61) and being out born (AOR = 6.84, 95%CI: 2.12,
22.13) were having significant association with neonatal hypothermia. In this study, the prevalence
of neonatal hypothermia was significantly high. Factors having significant association with neonatal
hypothermia were low birth weight, bathing within 24 h, absence of head cover, C/S delivery, delivery
at night and being out born were having
