Applying Logistic Regression on Determinants of Antenatal Health Care Usage of Women’s at Hossana town, in Bobicho Kebele

Antenatal health care (ANC) refers to pregnancy related health care provided by a doctor or a health worker in a health facility or home. ANC is the key entry point of a pregnant woman to receive broad range of health promotion and preventive services which promote the health of the mother and the baby. This study aimed to identify the factors affecting. Antenatal health care usage of women at Hossana town in Bobicho Kebele. In order to achieve our objective descriptive statistics, cross-tabulation and logistic regression statistical techniques were used for data analysis using socio-economic and demographic variables as explanatory variables and Antenatal health care usage of women as the response variable using R software. The results of descriptive statistics shows that 70(42.20%) of women were not use ANC and 96(57.80%) were use ANC and the inferential analysis show that age of women, women’s educational level, monthly average income, and material status of women, occupation of husband and utilization of accesses of health care were found to be important determinants of Antenatal health care usage of women in Hossana town at Bobicho Kebele. The result also suggested that adult, educated, married women were use ANC usage than the adolescent, uneducated and divorced and widowed women respectively. A woman’s having high monthly average income use ANC than having low monthly average income.  It is recommended that Governments should aware the women to use the Antenatal care usage of health service and all societies and concerned bodies must understand that education level of women and occupation of husband are the main determinant factors for the use of Antenatal care and usage of health services in our study area in Hossana town at Bobicho Keble. Keywords: Antenatal health care usage, R software, Binary Logistic Regression DOI : 10.7176/JMPB/63-01 Publication date: January 31 st 2020


Introduction
Background of the Study ANC refers to pregnancy related health care provided by a doctor or a health worker in a health facility or home. ANC is the key entry point of a pregnant woman to receive broad range of health promotion and preventive services which promote the health of the mother and the baby. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that worldwide more than 529,000 women die every year from complications of pregnancy, childbirth and abortion.
Ninety nine percent (99%) of these deaths are from the developing countries. Less than 1% of these deaths occur in more developed countries making maternal mortality the health indicator with the greatest disparity between developed and developing countries.
According to World Health Organization [1] recommendation, for normal pregnancy minimum of four antenatal visiting (at least 20 minutes duration for each) is needed to accomplish the essential level of ANC. ANC motivate pregnant woman facing any pregnancy complication to seek advice for her problems. A study on rural Uttar Pradesh shows the likelihood of women with high ANC use delivering in an institution three times higher than for women with no ANC use [2]. The importance of Antenatal health care services in reducing maternal and infant morbidity and mortality has received increasing recognition since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo. The utilization of Antenatal health care is one of the important factors to reduce the incidence of maternal mortality [3]. WHO indicate that in developing countries, ANC also reduces maternal mortality and morbidity directly through detection and treatments of pregnancy related or inter-current illnesses (malaria, anemia and syphilis) which are prevalent and have an impact on maternal and neonatal health. Malaria in pregnancy increases the chance of maternal anemia, abortion, stillbirth, prematurely, intrauterine growth retardation and infant low birth weight. It is estimated that as many as 30% of deaths during pregnancy in Africa directly result from malaria infection and malarial anemia is estimated to cause as many as 10,000 maternal deaths each year in Africa. The burden of Malaria in pregnancy could be minimized by use of intermittent presumptive treatment (IPT) and strengthening early detection and prompt treatment of cases among pregnant women [4].

Statement of Problem
Improving Antenatal health of population in this regard, is becoming not only an integral part of overall health development strategy, but also poverty reduction. The government has designed Antenatal health services program where the services are provided by private public health centers as well as international NGO's.
Efforts are still being made with great intensity, however; it is proved that the need for quality Antenatal health services is not yet fulfilled. For instance, 95% of birth takes without health care facilities, while only 6% babies delivered by health professionals (CSA, 2013). This shows that the vast majority of women who give birth in Ethiopia are at risk from delivery complications and infections leading to death or serious illness. Thus, changes have to be introduced after clear identification of factors affecting the Antenatal health services [5].
Antenatal health, like most aspects of health in Ethiopia, is generally poor. According to the Hossana town's health bureau (Wachamo University), remarkable efforts are being made to enhance the Antenatal health of the society. However, maternal health mortality, child mortality, delivery problems and family planning problems remain to be high due to the low level of Antenatal health care service. This gap is obviously created because of some factors which have to be investigated. It is the idea that prompted that we were focus on the area of Antenatal health services. In general, the motivation behind this study is intended to address the following two major research questions C. Is maternal health mortality, child mortality, delivery problems and family planning problems remaining to be high due to the low level of Antenatal health care service?

Objective of the study
The main objective of this study is to assess the determinants of Antenatal health care usage of women by applying binary logistic regression in case of Bobicho Keble at Hossana town.

Data Source
The study was conducted on the determinant of antenatal care usage of women in case of Bobicho Keble at Hossana town.
Hosanna town its administrative center of Hadiya zone, south nation, nationalities and people region (S.N.N.P.R). In the town there is one hospital and three health center which gives Antenatal health care usage, preventive, curative and rehabilitative service for the population. The target population for this study would be all married, divorced and widowed women whose age is To determine the representative sample size we used the pilot survey since, there was not the previous study about assessment of Antenatal health care usage in Bobicho at Hossana town [7]. Therefore, we would decide to use pilot survey for determining the sample. We would distribute the questions for 30 women that live in the study area. From those 18 responds yes and the rest responds no. p =18/30 =0.6, q = 12/30 =0.4 So, the initial sample size will be,

Methodology of the Study Data Processing and Analysis
After the data collected, the next step would be editing, analyzing and summarizing the data in appropriate manner and also the available of the data would be transformed in to reliable and useful information with the help of statistical analysis procedure by using R software [8].

Descriptive Statistics
Descriptive statistics refers to the techniques and methods for organizing and summarizing information obtained from the sample [9]. It describes the importance feature of the giving data. It may be computed by the measure of central tendency and measure of variation.

Inferential Statistics
Inferential statistics is statistics that deals with making inference or conclusion about population based on data obtained from a limited number of observations that come from the population.
Inferential statistics consists of estimation and hypothesis testing.
For this study chi-square test of independence and Binary logistic regression analysis would be used as method of data analysis [10].

Chi-square Test of Independence
Chi-square test is method of analysis for data obtained for categorical variables. The data was in the form of counts. Chi-square test for association (independence) in a two way classification uses this procedure to test if the probability of items or subjects being classified for one variable depends on the other variable. The objective of chi-square test of independence is to test whether there is a relationship between two categorical variables or not. The data displayed by a table known as contingency table.
The mathematical form of chi-square: X 2 Where: -X 2 cal=calculated chi-square O ji = observed frequency in cell (i, j) E ij =expected frequency for cell (i, j) E ij =i th row total× j th column total/grand total (n)

The Logistic Regression Model
Logistic regression is used when the regressed, the dependent variable or the response variable is qualitative in nature or categorical [11]. Qualitative response variable are either binary (dichotomous variable) or multiple category. We would use binary logistic regression in this study. The logistic regression model is a generalized linear model with random components. In a variability of regression application a response variable of interest has only two possible qualitative outcomes and therefore can be represented by binary indicator variables taking on values 0 and 1. We shall denote this response variable by Y and the two possible values are 0 and 1 or by the general terminology failure and success respectively.
Logistic regression allows one to predict a discreet outcome such as group membership from asset of predictor variable that may continuous discrete and dichotomous or a mixture of any of these.
Consider allocation of P independent variables which will be denoted by a vector X = (x 1 , x 2 x 3 ------x n ) The ratio of probability success to probability of failure is ( )

Odds Ratio
Logistic regressions work with odds so it is necessary to define both odds and odds ratio. The odds are simply the ratio of the probabilities for the two possible outcomes. If p is the probability that the event will occur, then 1 -p is the probability that the event will not occur: , is called odds ratio. Whereas the relative risk is a ratio of two probabilities, the odds ratio p is a ratio of two odds.

Descriptive Analysis of ANC Usage
The study was conducted on 166 women of Hossana town at Bobicho keble.

Logistic Regression Model Analysis
One of the problems of simple binary logistic regression approach is the ignorance of the probability that a collection of variables each of which is weakly associated with the outcome can become an important predictor of the outcomes when taken together. There are many variable selection procedures; among those researcher use backward elimination procedure to select the best variables of the model. Backward elimination is the procedure of selecting variable starting from regressing all variables at a time and removes the variable which has minimum Wald test or maximum p-value as compared to the level of significance (Table 3).

Test of Goodness of Fit of the Model
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Recommendation
This paper tries to identify the factors affecting Antenatal care and usage of health services. And the following recommendations are made for health worker and the community. Governments should aware the women to use the Antenatal care usage of health service in Hossana town at Bobicho keble. And, the government and other concerned bodies should make efforts to expand general community-based education so that women can have better access to information concerning Antenatal care usage of health services.