Abstract

Background: The impact of health of a woman is significant in many ways. A woman’s health determines her own life, her family’s welfare, and development of her country. However, due to lack of preventive activities and suitable care, most of the maternal mortalities happen in developing countries.

Objective: To assess safe delivery service utilization and factors associated among women of child bearing age who gave birth during the period of two years preceding the study in Ejere town, West Shoa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia.

Methods: A community based cross sectional study was conducted in Ejere town from October 26 to November 20, 2015 on 228 childbearing age women. Data were collected by using pre-tested structured questionnaire on magnitude and factors associated with safe delivery.

Results: One hundred forty five (64.4%) and 80 (35.5%) of study subjects were opt to use home delivery and institutional delivery respectively. The multivariate analysis revealed that age, education and antenatal care (ANC) attendance were found to be significant predictors of the safe delivery.

Conclusion: This study showed that majority of women preferred home delivery (64.4%) to safe delivery. Age, education and antenatal care attendance were significant predictors for the choice of women delivery place. Hence, the health institutions and other responsible bodies need make efforts to increase community based health education.

Keywords: Safe delivery; Childbearing age; EJERE town