Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding neonatal jaundice among caregivers in a tertiary health facility in Ghana
| العنوان: | Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding neonatal jaundice among caregivers in a tertiary health facility in Ghana |
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| المؤلفون: | Emmanuel Salia, Abubakari Wuni, Martin Amogre Ayanore, Robert Kaba Alhassan, Eric Kwame Dey, Dominic Amoah Akolga, Solomon Mohammed Salia, Agani Afaya, Doreen Dzidzor Kporvi, Shine Seyram Quarshie, Sean Augustine Eduah-Quansah, Peter Adatara, Vida Nyagre Yakong |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0251846 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Cross-sectional study, Physiology, Maternal Health, Social Sciences, Neonatal Care, Pediatrics, Ghana, Health facility, Psychological Attitudes, Surveys and Questionnaires, Medicine and Health Sciences, Psychology, Bile, Young adult, Multidisciplinary, Mortality rate, Public sector, Jaundice, Middle Aged, Body Fluids, Jaundice, Neonatal, Caregivers, Medicine, Educational Status, Female, medicine.symptom, Anatomy, Research Article, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Death Rates, Science, Mothers, Young Adult, Population Metrics, Ocular System, medicine, Humans, Population Biology, business.industry, Biology and Life Sciences, Neonates, Bilirubin, Private sector, Health Care, Cross-Sectional Studies, Logistic Models, Health Care Facilities, Family medicine, Women's Health, Eyes, Ordered logit, Health Facilities, Neonatology, business, Head, Developmental Biology |
| الوصف: | Background Neonatal jaundice is a major reason babies are frequently re-admitted after hospital discharge following delivery. One means of improving neonatal care and reducing potential mortality associated with neonatal jaundice in resource-limited settings is to create awareness among caregivers. Caregivers who tend to have higher knowledge and awareness, also have positive attitudes, and are not guided by outmoded socio-cultural beliefs and practices are more likely to seek early care and treatment for neonatal jaundice. Objective This study investigated caregivers’ knowledge, attitude and practices regarding neonatal jaundice in a tertiary health facility in the Volta region of Ghana. Methods This was a descriptive cross-sectional study that employed a quantitative approach for data collection. A total of 202 caregivers from the Ho Teaching Hospital in the Volta region of Ghana were sampled using a systematic random sampling strategy where quantitative data was collected using a questionnaire and analyzed with STATA version 14.0. Ordered logistic regression was used to determine the factors that were associated with caregivers’ knowledge regarding neonatal jaundice and attitude after controlling for relevant covariates. Results Less than half of the caregivers demonstrated good knowledge (45.5%) and attitude (47.5%) but 58.9% had good practices regarding neonatal jaundice. Caregivers who had prior awareness and education on neonatal jaundice were three times more likely to have good knowledge about jaundice than those without previous education [AOR = 3.02, (95%CI: 1.59–5.74), p = 0.001]. A caregiver employed in the public sector was two times more likely to have a good attitude about jaundice than those employed in the private sector [AOR = 2.08, (95%CI: 1.03–4.21), p = 0.042]. Conclusion Less than two thirds of the caregivers demonstrated good practice with limited knowledge and poor attitude. Efforts to promote well informed and improved caregivers’ attitude will advance positive maternal health-seeking behavior and reduce disabilities and death through early detection and intervention of infants with neonatal jaundice. Public awareness and education about neonatal jaundice especially among caregivers in the private sector should also be intensified. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::3e910e326a85c44e46eebade5e788026Test http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8177863Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....3e910e326a85c44e46eebade5e788026 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19326203 |
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