Individual and community level predictors of utilization of deworming medications among pregnant women in Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis

Fantu Mamo Aragaw, Daniel Gashaneh Belay, Mastewal Endalew, Melaku Hunie Asratie, Moges Gashaw and Nuhamin Tesfa Tsega

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022, vol. 16, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: Background: Deworming is one strategy for reducing the burden of anaemia in pregnant women caused by intestinal parasites and it is one of the components of prenatal treatment offered to pregnant women in Ethiopia during antenatal care visits. However, there is limited evidence on the levels of deworming utilization and its determinants in Ethiopia. Hence, this study was aimed to assess the levels of deworming utilization and its individual and community level determinants among pregnant women in Ethiopia. Method: This study used a total weighted sample of 7590 reproductive-aged women who gave birth in the five years preceding the survey from the 2016 EDHS data. The data were cleaned and weighted using STATA version 16. Results were presented with tables and texts. Individual and community level determinants for deworming use among Ethiopian pregnant women were identified using a multilevel binary logistic regression model. In the multivariable multilevel analysis, those variables with p-value

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010731

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