Table 1.
Socio demographic characteristics of mothers in Sodo town, Wolaita Zone, southern Ethiopia, 2019 (n = 410).
Table 2.
Obstetrics history of mothers in Sodo town, Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2019(n = 410).
Fig 1.
Danger signs that new-born in experienced in Sodo town, Wolaita Zone, southern Ethiopia, 2019 (n = 231).
From a total of 231 neonates who experienced danger signs, 110 (47.6%) mothers preferred to seek care for their sick neonate at a health facility, 75 (32.4%) preferred traditional healers, and 18 (7.8%) gave home therapy (Fig 2). “Damakesie,” garlic, “tenadam,” honey, a mixture of lemon and ash put on the neonate’s head for tonsillitis, match stick for convulsions, tepid sponging for fever, exposure to sunlight for jaundice, and rubbing with coconut oil for cold body were some of the home treatments mothers used for their sick children.
Fig 2.
Care seeking practice of mothers for their sick neonate in Sodo town, Wolaita Zone, southern Ethiopia, 2019 (n = 231).
Table 3.
Reasons for not seeking medical care for neonatal danger signs in Sodo town, Wolaita Zone, southern Ethiopia, 2019 (n = 121).
Table 4.
Factors associated with mothers health care seeking practice for neonatal danger signs in Sodo town, Wolaita Zone, southern Ethiopia, 2019 (n = 410).