ROUTINE HEALTH INFORMATION UTILIZATION AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS WORKING AT PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES OF DIRE DAWA, EASTERN, ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Using reliable information from RHIS over time is an important to improve Health outcomes, tackling disparities, enhancing efficiency and encouraging innovation. In Ethiopia, the RHIS for enhancing performance was not well studied among health workers. In Dire dawa, RHIS was below the national standard in all health facilities which is below 80%. The factors which affect RHIS were lack of training, lack of decision based on supervision, and lack of feedback. Objective: To assess the level of routine health information utilization and associated factors a mong Health Care Professionals Working at public health facilities of Dire Dawa, Eastern Ethiopia, 2020. Methods: Afacility-based cross-sectional study design with quantitative data collection methods was employed at the Dire Dawa from June10–July20, 2020. A total of 378 randomly selected health workers were included in the study, the data were collected using a self-administration questionnaire developed by reviewing different litratures. The data were cleaned and entered into Epi-data version 3.1, and then exported to Stata version 14.2 for analysis. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression analyses were used to analyze the data, Odds ratio with 95% CI was used to assess the association between RHIU.Significant associations were declared significant at p-value < 0.05. Results:-The study revealed that 57.67% of the health workers utilize routine health information. Good decision making autonomy AOR=3.29, 95% CI: (1.70, 6.3), Good self efficacy AOR= 2.71, 95% C.I: (1.30, 5.63) & Good organization support AOR=3.85, 95% CI:(1.88, 7.70) were found significantly associated with level of RHIU. Conclusion:-. More than half of the health workers working at public health facilities utilize routine health information , Self efficacy, Organizational support and Decision making autnomy were found to be significantly associated with RHIU.Thus, Self-efficacy, decision making autnomy and organizational support are recommended for improving RHIU.