| dc.description.abstract | The skilled and competent attendant is vital in curbing maternal and infant mortality. Promoting
the utilization of maternal health services supervised by skilled health professionals greatly aids in
bridging the gap in accessing maternal health services such as immunization and postnatal care
services. This lack of skilled attendance is one of the major factors responsible for the rising maternal
and infant mortality. Thus, there’s still needed to encourage these women to seek out the services of
skilled health professionals during childbirth. This study is aimed at investigating the use of an
organized public forums approach in influencing the uptake of skilled birth attendants (SBAs) among
women of reproductive age in the Kanamai Area, Kilifi County. The study was conducted at Kanamai
Area, Kilifi County. A cross-sectional survey was carried out using semi-structured questionnaires as
tools of data collection. Simple random sampling was used to recruit the study participants. All
analyses were done using R for Windows (version 4.0.3). Both descriptive and inferential analyses
were done. Descriptive statistics were used to generate frequency and percentages, while chi-square
was used to draw inferences. Association was considered significant if
𝑃 < 0.05. Some of the notable
significant factors gathered through our public forum engagement influencing support for delivery
assisted by skilled birth attendants (SBAs) were education level, occupation, and parity. There’s a
need for the concerned agencies to embrace the use of public forums and other relevant approaches
so as to sought out and promote the rate of health services utilization. | en_US |
