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Infectious Diseases 2018
Journal of Prevention and Infection Control
ISSN: 2471-9668
Page 65
June 07-08, 2018
London, UK
8
th
Edition of International Conference on
Infectious Diseases
Background:
It is essential that providing sexual and reproductive
health (SRH) services have the knowledge and skills to address
the particular concerns and problems of women livingwithHIV. So
this makes important to undertake this study. This study seeks to
assess knowledge, attitude and practice of health care providers
towards providing sexual and reproductive health services to HIV-
positive women in Jimma zone.
Materials & Theoretical Orientation:
A facility based cross
sectional study was conducted using quantitative methods of
data collection among a sample of 271 health care providers from
October 1–30, 2013. Bivariate analysis to look for association at
<25% significance level and multivariate logistic regression to
identify independent predictors at P-value of 0.05 was done.
Findings:
The overall knowledge score was 109 (42.6%) of health
care providers had poor knowledge. More than half (52.7%) of
the respondents had favorable attitude towards provision of
sexual and reproductive health services, the overall practice
score showed that 184 (71.9%) of respondents had poor practice
regarding the service provision. Predictors of knowledge include:
sex (AOR: 2.43, CI: 1.39, 4.20), year of experience (AOR: 3.24, CI:
1.56, 6.72), supervision (AOR: 0.54, CI: 0.31, 0.95) and payment for
extra workload (AOR: 0.44, CI: 0.25, 0.76). None of independent
variables were associated with attitude.
Conclusions & Significance:
More than half of health care
providers have favorable attitude towards provision of SRH
services to HIV positive women, but a significant proportion of
them have poor knowledge. Besides, most of the health care
providers have poor practice scores.
muktar27@yahoo.comKnowledge, attitude, practice towards providing sexual
and reproductive health services to HIV-positive women and
associated factors among healthcare providers in Jimma zone
Muktar Beshir Ahmed
Jimma University, Ethiopia
J Prev Infect Cntrol 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2471-8084-C1-003