BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious and cause for the death of many people worldwide. Due to physiological immunosuppressive state and mechanical alteration, pregnant women are at a higher risk of severe illness and adverse maternal and fetal outcomes from COVID-19 than non-pregnant women. Compliance with the preventive measures is essential to control COVID-19 related consequences. Therefore, this study aimed to assess compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public facilities of Debre Berhan town, Ethiopia. METHODS: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted from May 1 to 30, 2021 among 402 pregnant mothers. Data were collected via a face-to-face interviewer-administered questionnaire. Then, entered into Epi-Data version 4.6 and exported to SPSS version 25 for data analysis. In multivariable logistic regression analysis, variables with p < 0.05 were declared as statistically significant and the strength of statistical association was measured by adjusted odds ratio (AOR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). RESULTS: Of the total 396 participants, 222 (56.1%) of women had a good compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures. Maternal age (25-34 years) [AOR: 1.926; 95% CI (1.084, 3.421)] and (≥35 years) [AOR: 3.018; 95% CI (1.53, 5.952)], husband educational status [AOR: 3.68; 95% CI (1.55, 8.737)], had current chronic disease [AOR: 2.516; 95% CI (1.297, 4.883)], and knowledge [AOR: 5.484; 95% CI (3.057, 9.838)] were significant predictors to have good compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures. CONCLUSION: Although COVID-19 is a global and national agenda, compliance towards its preventive measures was not sufficient enough. Therefore, scale-up the community awareness via media campaign is crucial which will eventually improve compliance. Furthermore, those women who had no pre-existing chronic diseases and those in the young age group should be given special consideration.
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious and cause for the death of many people worldwide. Due to physiological immunosuppressive state and mechanical alteration, pregnant women are at a higher risk of severe illness and adverse maternal and fetal outcomes from COVID-19 than non-pregnant women. Compliance with the preventive measures is essential to control COVID-19 related consequences. Therefore, this study aimed to assess compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public facilities of Debre Berhan town, Ethiopia. METHODS: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted from May 1 to 30, 2021 among 402 pregnant mothers. Data were collected via a face-to-face interviewer-administered questionnaire. Then, entered into Epi-Data version 4.6 and exported to SPSS version 25 for data analysis. In multivariable logistic regression analysis, variables with p < 0.05 were declared as statistically significant and the strength of statistical association was measured by adjusted odds ratio (AOR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). RESULTS: Of the total 396 participants, 222 (56.1%) of women had a good compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures. Maternal age (25-34 years) [AOR: 1.926; 95% CI (1.084, 3.421)] and (≥35 years) [AOR: 3.018; 95% CI (1.53, 5.952)], husband educational status [AOR: 3.68; 95% CI (1.55, 8.737)], had current chronic disease [AOR: 2.516; 95% CI (1.297, 4.883)], and knowledge [AOR: 5.484; 95% CI (3.057, 9.838)] were significant predictors to have good compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures. CONCLUSION: Although COVID-19 is a global and national agenda, compliance towards its preventive measures was not sufficient enough. Therefore, scale-up the community awareness via media campaign is crucial which will eventually improve compliance. Furthermore, those women who had no pre-existing chronic diseases and those in the young age group should be given special consideration.
Authors: Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales; Jaime A Cardona-Ospina; Estefanía Gutiérrez-Ocampo; Rhuvi Villamizar-Peña; Yeimer Holguin-Rivera; Juan Pablo Escalera-Antezana; Lucia Elena Alvarado-Arnez; D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana; Carlos Franco-Paredes; Andrés F Henao-Martinez; Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi; Guillermo J Lagos-Grisales; Eduardo Ramírez-Vallejo; Jose A Suárez; Lysien I Zambrano; Wilmer E Villamil-Gómez; Graciela J Balbin-Ramon; Ali A Rabaan; Harapan Harapan; Kuldeep Dhama; Hiroshi Nishiura; Hiromitsu Kataoka; Tauseef Ahmad; Ranjit Sah Journal: Travel Med Infect Dis Date: 2020-03-13 Impact factor: 6.211
Authors: Jonathan W Haft; Pavan Atluri; Gorav Ailawadi; Daniel T Engelman; Michael C Grant; Ansar Hassan; Jean-Francois Legare; Glenn J R Whitman; Rakesh C Arora Journal: Ann Thorac Surg Date: 2020-04-16 Impact factor: 4.330
Authors: Pradip Dashraath; Jing Lin Jeslyn Wong; Mei Xian Karen Lim; Li Min Lim; Sarah Li; Arijit Biswas; Mahesh Choolani; Citra Mattar; Lin Lin Su Journal: Am J Obstet Gynecol Date: 2020-03-23 Impact factor: 8.661