Assessing of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Sunlight Exposure of Infants among Mothers Attending in Nigest Elleni Mohammed Memorial Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Hossana Ethiopia 2023
Received Date: Jan 01, 2024 / Published Date: Jan 31, 2024
Abstract
Background: Sun exposure has the most important benefit: it increases the amount of vitamin D absorbed into your body, also sunlight exposure is the main source of vitamin D. Daily exposure to sunlight remains the cheapest, safest, and most effective method for preventing vitamin-D-related diseases.
Objective: To Assessing of knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sunlight Exposure of Infants among Mothers Attending in Nigest Elleni Mohammed Memorial Comprehensive Specialized Hospital Hosanna Town Ethiopia 2023.
Method: Institutional base cross-sectional study was conducted among mothers of infants visiting NEMMCSH from November1-December30/2023.to select the study participant systematic random sampling was applied. Data were entered and analysed by using SPSS version 24.
Result: A total of 252 study participants were served with a response rate of 100% of these 107 (42.4%) of them aged between 25-29yrs, 171(67. 9%) of the mothers could read and write, similarly 196 (77. 9%) of their husbands could also read and write. The majority of the respondents 238 (94.4%) knew about sunlight exposure of their infants. Among 252 respondents 232 (92.1%) of them knew of morning is a good time to expose to sunlight. Almost all (99.6%) of mothers had a positive attitude towards sunlight exposure. Of the total respondents (90.1%) of mothers believed that sunlight exposure helps to prevent rickets in infants. Most of the respondents 227(90.07%) exposed directly or indirectly of their infants to sunlight. 165 respondents started to expose their child to sunlight between 16 -30 days and More than half of participants (70%) exposed their Children to sunlight
Conclusion: According to our study, the majority of the respondents (95%) had good knowledge about sunlight exposure of their infants and 98% of respondents had good attitudes. On the other hand, 29.7 % of mothers disagree about the benefit of sunlight exposure to their infant, from these, 49.2% of mothers believe sunlight exposure to infants can cause evil eye
Citation: Gedamu E (2024) Assessing of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice ofSunlight Exposure of Infants among Mothers Attending in Nigest Elleni MohammedMemorial Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Hossana Ethiopia 2023. J PregChild Health 11: 618.
Copyright: © 2024 Gedamu E. This is an open-access article distributed underthe terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricteduse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author andsource are credited.
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