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Background: Skilled assistance during delivery is key intervention to reduce maternal deaths. However, in Ethiopia, which is among the six countries contributing to more than half of global maternal deaths, skilled delivery remained stagnant at a very low level.
Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess determinants of skilled delivery service utilization among women in resource-limited pastoral communities in Somali regional state of Ethiopia.
Methods: We analyzed the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) to assess determinants of skilled delivery service utilization). By using STATA for windows version 14.1 the data was fitted into logistic regression models to identify determinants of skilled delivery. Accordingly, descriptive statistics, bi-variate and multi-variate logistic regression analyses was used to describe the study objectives and assess determinants. Odds ratio at 95% CI was used to describe the association between the study and the outcome variables.
Results: In this study a total of 806women living in the pastoralist area of Somalia region were included from the 2016 DHS survey. Maternal education, maternal occupation, husband/partners occupation, number of children and getting medical help for self: distance to health facility identified as the determinants of skilled delivery. While the likelihood of having skilled delivery service utilization among women in Somali regional state was lower.
Conclusion and Recommendations: This study identifies several factors that predict the determinant factors of skilled delivery service utilization among women in the region. These include maternal education, maternal occupation, husband/partners occupation, number of children and getting medical help for self (distance to health facility). Thus it is recommended that should focused on awareness creation and campaigns on the benefit of utilization of skilled delivery services to the health of women, children and to the community at large.
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