The effect of catchment based mentorship on quality of maternal and newborn care in primary health care facilities in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia: A controlled quasi-experimental study.

Background: In Ethiopia, quality of maternal and newborn care is poor. This situation has persisted, despite the wide implementation of several capacity building-oriented interventions including clinical mentoring for skilled birth attendants that were anticipated to translate in to high-quality maternal and newborn care on each encounter. The effectiveness of mentoring programs is not yet well documented in the research literature.

Health care professionals' adherence to partograph use in Ethiopia: analysis of 2016 national emergency obstetric and newborn care survey.

Background: The period around childbirth and the first 24 hours postpartum remains a perilous time for both mother and newborn. Health care providers' compliance to the World Health Organization modified partogram across the active first stage of labor is a graphic representation of a mother's condition that is used as a guide in providing quality obstetrics care. However, little evidence is documented on the health providers' adherence to the use of the partograph in Ethiopia, which limits health care providers' ability to improve quality care services.

Exploring Factors Influencing Practice of Neonatal Resuscitation with Bag and Mask in Ethiopia: Analysis from 2016 National Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care Survey.

Background: Globally, more than 7 million children die under the age of five and the highest proportion of death is during the first 28 days of life. For babies who do not breathe at birth, neonatal resuscitation is critical in reducing intra-partum related neonatal deaths by 30%. Yet, there is a dearth of studies on the provision of neonatal resuscitation in Ethiopia.

Quality of and barriers to routine childbirth care signal functions in primary level facilities of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: Mixed method study.

Background: Efforts to expand access to institutional delivery alone without quality of care do not guarantee better survival. However, little evidence documents the quality of childbirth care in Ethiopia, which limits our ability to improve quality. Therefore, this study assessed the quality of and barriers to routine childbirth care signal functions during intra-partum and immediate postpartum period.

Reducing Undernutrition through Counseling on Diversified Food Intake among Adult People Living with HIV on HAART, Northern Ethiopia.

Background: HIV/AIDS and malnutrition are interrelated and exacerbate one another in a vicious cycle. As HIV infection progresses it causes catabolic state and increases susceptibility to other infections, leading to progressive aggravation of undernutrition. However, data are lacking in Ethiopia on determinants of undernutrition among people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy.

Beyond health system contact: measuring and validating quality of childbirth care indicators in primary level facilities of northern Ethiopia.

Background: Measurement of quality of health care has been largely overlooked and continues to be a major health system bottleneck in monitoring performance and quality to evaluate progress against defined targets for better decision making. Hence, metrics of maternity care are needed to advance from health service contact alone to content of care. We assessed the accuracy of indicators that describe the quality of basic care for childbirth functions both at the individual level as well as at the population level in Northern Ethiopia.

Quality of neonatal resuscitation in Ethiopia: implications for the survival of neonates.

Background: Birth asphyxia accounts for one-quarter newborn deaths. Providing quality care service of neonatal resuscitation reduces neonatal mortality. However, challenges to providing quality neonatal resuscitation are not well investigated in Ethiopia.

Quality of Kangaroo Mother Care services in Ethiopia: Implications for policy and practice.

Background: Providing high-quality kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a strategy proven to improve outcomes in premature babies. However, whether KMC is consistently and appropriately provided in Ethiopia is unclear. This study assesses the quality of KMC services in Ethiopia and the factors associated with its appropriate initiation among low birth weight neonates.

Overweight and obesity among children under five in Ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 national demographic health survey: a case control study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the determinants of overweight and obesity among children under 5 years in Ethiopia.

Results: Data from a total of 672 (224 cases and 448 controls) under 5 years of age children were included in the study. Urban residence (AOR = 2.

Mothers' utilization and associated factors in preconception care in northern Ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study.

Background: Adverse pregnancy outcomes remain a prevalent health problem in Ethiopia. Mothers' use of preconception care service has the potential to avert many of the adverse outcomes. However, the use of this service and its determinants is not well investigated.

Healthcare Professionals' Knowledge of Neonatal Resuscitation in Ethiopia: Analysis from 2016 National Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care Survey.

Background: Birth asphyxia, which accounts for 31.6% of all neonatal deaths, is one of the principal causes of neonatal mortality in Ethiopia. Adequate knowledge of newborn resuscitative procedures plays an important role in early diagnoses and suitable management.

Nutritional status significantly affects hospital length of stay among surgical patients in public hospitals of Northern Ethiopia: single cohort study.

Objective: This study aimed to assess the effect of nutritional status on length of hospital stay in Northern Ethiopia.

Result: Institutional based prospective cohort study was conducted among 324 admitted surgical patients. Length of hospital stay were significantly associated with duration of disease (Adjusted Hazard Ratio (AHR) = 3.

Does short inter-pregnancy interval predicts the risk of preterm birth in Northern Ethiopia?

Objective: The study aimed to assess the effect of inter pregnancy interval on preterm birth in Northern Ethiopia: prospective cohort study.

Result: This study showed that, total incidence of premature birth was 10.4%.

Exclusive breastfeeding and associated factors among HIV positive mothers in Northern Ethiopia.

Background: It is estimated that sub-optimal feeding, especially non-exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6months of life, results in 1.4million deaths and 10% of disease burden in children younger than five years. Worldwide, it is estimated that only 34.