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Determinants of Vital Events Registration among Residents of Dessie City, Ethiopia, 2019: Case Control Study

Wolde Melese Ayele, Tesfaye Birhane Tegegne

Background: Ethiopia started four vital events (birth, death, marriage, and divorce) since July/2016, but its performance is still low. However, factors influencing weak performance were not well known.
Objective: The aim of this study was to determinants of vital events registration among Dessie city residents, 2019.
Methods: A case-control study was conducted from May 16 to April 02/2019 in Dessie city. Before the any further quantitative study, a qualitative study was performed to explore variables for designing tools to run a quantitative study. Cases were selected using a simple random technique from a list of registered events in each sub-city. The elder person from Neighbor households to cases was taken as control. Data entered using Epi Info version 7.1 and to analyzed using STATA version 14.1. In a multi-variable analysis, variables with P-value<0.05 were taken as statistically significant. Result: Socio-demographic, information sources, bureaucracy, knowledge, attitude and wealth of their
respondents were theme of variables explored as possible determinants. Among these variables able to read and write [AOR=6.77, CI=(1.794, 25.537)], gave birth at governmental [AOR=2.97, CI=(1.173, 7.554), and privatives [AOR=3.05, CI=(1.378, 6.738)] health institutions, deaths occurred during night time [AOR=0.31, Cl-(4.5) CI=(0.112, 0.840)], had previous experience of being requested of certificate by anybody [AOR=14.61, Cl-(4.3) CI=(2.928, 72.926)], had good knowledge [AOR=9.98, CI=(3.797, 26.241)], and good attitude [AOR=12.95, CI=(7.105, 23.621)] were significantly associated with vital events registration.