Tsegaye Terefe
Introduction: Although care-seeking interventions have the potential to considerably, reduce child mortality in developing countries, large number of children die due to delays in seeking care. Inability to recognize potentially lifethreatening conditions and diverse care-seeking practices were factors of caregivers to delays in seeking care. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to assess mother's/ caregivers health seeking behaviors for common childhood illness and identifying associated factors in order to improve child health. Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the magnitude of health seeking behaviors to common childhood illness among mothers/care-givers having under five children and associated factors on model and non-model kebeles Habru district, North Wollo, Amhara, Ethiopia, 2020. Methods: A community based comparative cross-sectional study were employed. The sample size was determined by using double population proportion formula and design effect of 1.5 considered. A multi-stage stratified sampling technique used to select the kebeles and households. Three hundred forty three caregivers selected from each model and no-model kebele proportionally. All variables found significantly associated with health care seeking behavior at p-value <0.2 in the bivariate analysis entered into the multivariate model, and adjusted odds ratios with the 95% confidence intervals corresponding to variables included in a model .
