Table 7 Maternal knowledge of essential newborn care among postnatal mothers visiting Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Debre Tabor General Hospital, Debre Tabor town, North Central Ethiopia, 2019 (n = 363)
Factor | Percentage |
|---|---|
Material for cord cutting | |
New blade | 25.1 |
New scissor | 74.9 |
Material for cord ligation | |
String or thread | 48.8 |
Cord tie | 32.8 |
Cord clamp | 10.7 |
Don’t know | 7.7 |
Material application on cord stump | |
Nothing applied | 79.6 |
Butter | 8.5 |
Vaseline | 11.3 |
Other (animal dung) | 0.6 |
Cord stump support | |
Without dressing | 86.5 |
With dressing /cover | 13.5 |
Neonatal bathing | |
After 24 hrs of delivery | 72.7 |
Before 24 hrs of delivery | 27.3 |
Initiation time of breastfeeding | |
Within 1 hr of delivery | 66.1 |
After 1 hr of delivery | 20.9 |
After placenta was removed | 11.0 |
Don’t know | 1.9 |