Abstract:
Back ground: Giving childbirth is a natural phenomenon beside the old custom society assigns
women’s roles, responsibilities and their position in the family and the role of men in reproductive and
sexual health has never been so widely recognized. Several initiatives has been in place to advocate
men's shared responsibility, promotion of their active involvement in responsible parenthood
,reproductive health interventions targeted to couples are found to be more effective as involvement of
husbands improve communication with service providers and encourage women to utilize health
services.
Objective: - Male involvement in institutional delivery and associated factors among males whose
wives’ give birth last 12 month Harar town, Eastern Ethiopia, February4- 14/2018
Methods: - The study was conducted in Harar City. Community based cross-sectional study design
with quantitative method were applied in 570 men. The study was used multi-stage scheme using
simple and systematic sampling technique. The data were entered to Epi-data and then exported to
SPSS20 for analysis. A descriptive analysis was done using frequency, mean, and standard deviation.
Crude and adjust logistic regression were used to see relationship between independent variable with
outcome variable in order to control confounding factors. Significance level of P<0.05 and association
of variables were tested by using 95% confidence interval (C.I) and odd ratio.
Result:-Five hundred fifty-three respondent with response rate 97% the proportion of males
involvement in institutional delivery was found 42.9% (95% CI 38.9-47) , factors associated with male
involvement in institutional delivery were males age less than 35 years (AOR=2.45, 95% CI:1.69-3.55),
educational status of males post primary and above (AOR=1.86, 95% CI:1.15-3.01), monthly house
hold income above 3000E birr (AOR=3.48,CI:1.13-10.73), good knowledge about danger sign and
advantage of institutional delivery (AOR=1.82, CI:1.22-272) were statistically and positively
associated with male involvement in institutional delivery.
Conclusion and recommendation: The proportion of male involvement was 42.9%, knowledge Danger
sine of child birth and benefit of institutional delivery of male partner, monthly house holed income above 3000E
birr and age of male less than 35years and post primary and above educational level of male were an
independent variables was associated with male involvement in institutional delivery. Therefore, it needed to
aware males to involve in their wives’ to deliver in health institution, and health education and
awareness of males at different level, opportunities Education for male and research must be
encouraged in this area
