Knowledge, Practice, and Factors Affecting Sunlight Exposure of Infants Among Mothers at Governmental Health Facilities in Dessie Town, Ethiopia, 2021.
Background: Human being needs sunlight for physical and mental well-being. Sunlight helps the body to produce vitamin D, an important vitamin for skeletal development, immune function, and blood cell formation. So, the community should be counseled to get sufficient sun exposure and vitamin D supple...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics pp. 1 - 10 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , , , , |
| Formato: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
| Publicado: |
Sage Publications Inc.
1/17/2023
|
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=161342807&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 161342807 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 11795565 B3KV jtl: Clinical Medicine Insights: Pediatrics issn: 11795565 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: 1/17/2023 pid: 20732 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 161342807 161342807 161342807 10.1177/11795565221148329 161342807 ppf: 1 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Knowledge, Practice, and Factors Affecting Sunlight Exposure of Infants Among Mothers at Governmental Health Facilities in Dessie Town, Ethiopia, 2021. aug: au: Goshiye, Debrnesh Biset, Gebeyaw Abegaz, Zinet Birrie, Endalk Gedamu, Sisay affil: Department of Pediatric and Child Health Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia sug: subj: Hospitals, Public Ethiopia Hospitals, Urban Ethiopia Sunlight Infant Care Health Knowledge Evaluation Health Beliefs Evaluation Mothers Psychosocial Factors Human Female Ethiopia Maternal Attitudes Evaluation Occupations and Professions Health Information Information Resources Age Factors Health Education Adult Adult: 19-44 years Female ab: Background: Human being needs sunlight for physical and mental well-being. Sunlight helps the body to produce vitamin D, an important vitamin for skeletal development, immune function, and blood cell formation. So, the community should be counseled to get sufficient sun exposure and vitamin D supplementation to uphold the serum 25 (OH) D levels. This study designed to assess the mothers' knowledge, practice, and factors affecting the sunlight exposure of their infants. Methods: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted at governmental health facilities in Dessie Town, 2021. A total of 398 mothers were interviewed using semi structured questionnaires. Data were entered into the EPI data version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS 23. Binary and multivariate logistic regression analyses were also performed. In multivariate analysis, a significant association was considered at P -value of <.05. Results: Response rate was 98.9%. About 76.6% and 58.9% of the mothers had poor knowledge and poor practice regarding sunlight exposure of infants respectively. Mothers' occupation (aOR = 0.124, 95% CI = 0.042, 0.365), mothers' source of information (aOR = 18.604, 95% CI = 7.564, 45.75), and attitude (aOR = 2.773, 95% CI = 1.474, 5.215) had showed a significant association with mothers' knowledge. On the other hand, mothers' age (aOR = 3.191, 95% CI = 1.334, 7.633), mothers occupation (aOR = 4.226, 95% CI = 2.321, 7.694), and baby age (aOR = 1.989, 95% CI = 1.260, 3.140) had a significant association with their practice about sunlight exposure of infants. Conclusion: Mothers' knowledge and practice of sunlight exposure of infants are poor in Dessie Town. Hence measures should be taken to increase and improve mothers' responsiveness of sunlight exposure of infants. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|