Determinants of practice of preconception care among women of reproductive age group in southern Ethiopia, 2020: content analysis

• DOI: 10.1186/s12978-021-01154-3
• Publication Date: 2021-05-21T08:03:04Z
• Authors: Aklilu Habte; Samuel Dessu; Dereje Haile
• Keywords: Male; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; FOS: Health sciences; Preconception care; 0302 clinical medicine; Sociology; Pregnancy; Pathology; Child; Determinants; Global Maternal and Child Health Outcomes; 2. Zero hunger; Public health; Statistics; 1. No poverty; Obstetrics and Gynecology; FOS: Sociology; 3. Good health; Reproductive Health; Contents of care; Data collection; Medicine; Female; Preconception Care; Adult; Contraception and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention; Family medicine; Adolescent; Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes of Cesarean Section; Pregnancy Intention; Nursing; 03 medical and health sciences; Health Sciences; FOS: Mathematics; Genetics; Humans; Biology; Cross-sectional study; Demography; Research; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Gynecology and obstetrics; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Cross-Sectional Studies; FOS: Biological sciences; Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; RG1-991; Women's Health; Reproductive medicine; Ethiopia; Health Facilities; Delivery of Health Care; Mathematics

Preconception care (PCC) is a series of biomedical, mental, and psycho-social health services provided to women couple before pregnancy throughout subsequent pregnancies for desired outcomes. Millions new-borns have died in low-income countries due impediments that arise exaggerate during are not deal with as part pre-conception care. To the best our knowledge, however, there lack information about preconception practice its determinants southern Ethiopia, including study area. This was therefore planned assess among mothers who recently gave birth Wolkite town, 2020.