Publications by authors named "Temesgen Geta"

Background: Hypertension is a significant public health challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where its management is often inadequate. Understanding patients' experiences and perspectives is crucial for improving hypertension care. Despite a growing body of literature on hypertension in Ethiopia, most studies focus on quantitative data, leaving a significant gap in qualitative insights into patient experiences and perspectives.

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  • In Ethiopia, home birth contributes significantly to maternal and neonatal mortality, prompting research into the preference for home births among women in the country.
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of 14 studies with 6,631 participants revealed that 41.48% of Ethiopian women prefer home births, with preferences varying regionally—highest at 61.40% in Oromia and lowest at 20.52% in southern Ethiopia.
  • Factors influencing this preference include lower education levels and younger age of women, highlighting the need for better women's health education to address the issue.
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Background: Preterm delivery refers to childbirth that occurs before 37 full weeks' gestation. Globally, around 13.4 million babies are born preterm annually, a million died due to its complications.

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Background: Stillbirth always resulted in a multi-dimensional impact from the individual level to the country level at large. It causes psychological depression, social stigmatization, and decreased quality of life for women. Despite several studies conducted in Ethiopia, no national pooled estimates were done.

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Background: Nurses turnover intention, representing the extent to which nurses express a desire to leave their current positions, is a critical global public health challenge. This issue significantly affects the healthcare workforce, contributing to disruptions in healthcare delivery and organizational stability. In Ethiopia, a country facing its own unique set of healthcare challenges, understanding and mitigating nursing turnover are of paramount importance.

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Background: The client's satisfaction after abortion care is the key to sustaining abortion care and increasing the health status of those who had complications from abortion. Nevertheless, research conducted in Ethiopia stated that the major problem is the need for post-abortion care for females. One of the ways to improve the qualities involved in post abortion care and decrease the mortality and morbidity rates caused by unsafe abortion is by ensuring client satisfaction with abortion care.

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Background: In the context of healthcare, satisfaction is the attainment of adequate or acceptable treatment and serves as both a benchmark for quality and the ultimate objective of providing care. In neonatal care facilities, parent satisfaction is a key measure of the quality of the services offered to the newborns and aids in improving healthcare delivery. This is the first systematic review aiming to address critical knowledge gaps regarding factors influencing parental satisfaction with neonatal intensive care unit services, and determine pooled prevalence in Ethiopia.

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Background: To enhance patient satisfaction, nurses engaged in preoperative care must possess a comprehensive understanding of the most up-to-date evidence. However, there is a notable dearth of relevant information regarding the current status of preoperative care satisfaction and its impact, despite a significant rise in the number of patients seeking surgical intervention with complex medical requirements.

Objective: To assess patient satisfaction with preoperative nursing care and its associated factors in surgical procedures of, 2023.

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Background: In Ethiopia, one in five instrumental deliveries among women giving birth resulted in an unfavourable outcome. This study aimed to assess the determinants of feto-maternal complications of instrumental delivery in selected public hospitals of Gamo and Gofa zones, Southern Ethiopia.

Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 399 women attending selected public hospitals in the Gamo and Gofa zones.

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Background: Non-institutional delivery is one of the major reasons that results in high mortality rates for a mother and her neonate. The World Health Organization estimates that only 43% of mothers have access to skilled delivery services. A recent Ethiopian Mini Demographic Survey indicated that more than half of Ethiopian women have given birth non-institutionally.

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Background: Nursing documentation documents the everyday activities of nursing care that are planned and implemented on individual patients by nurses of different educational statuses. Documentation of nursing activities is the key source of clinical information to meet professional and legal requirements. Although nursing documentation is an important part of nursing practice, it is commonly undone by nurses working with patients for different reasons.

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Background And Objective: An important indicator of the quality of antenatal care (ANC) is the satisfaction of the client. Despite this, women in Ethiopia are very dissatisfied with the quality of their ANC. In Ethiopia, a systematic review was conducted to estimate the pooled prevalence of client satisfaction (CS) with ANC services.

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Introduction: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) cause a wide range of public health problems if left untreated. They can lead to adverse birth outcomes, including stillbirth, fetal loss, neonatal death, preterm birth, and low birth weight. Although great efforts have been made to reduce STIs nationally, their incidence remains high in Ethiopia, and their co-infection calls for urgent action.

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Background: Considering the importance of client satisfaction in the quality of family planning services, a regular evaluation should be carried out. Several studies have been conducted in Ethiopia, but so far there were no pooled estimates of the prevalence of customer satisfaction with family planning services in the country. Therefore, this systematic review and meta-analysis was intended to estimate the pooled prevalence of client satisfaction with Ethiopian family planning services in Ethiopia.

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