Background: Adolescents need to have adequate life skills along with personal and social competencies to build responsible adults for healthy behavior. Works of literature agree that life skills improve adolescent’s cognitive, social, and emotional skills; however, there is a paucity of evidence on the association of life skills with sexual behaviors. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the association of life skills with sexual behavior among school adolescents aged 15–19 years in Mettu Town, South West Ethiopia. Methods: School-based cross-sectional study was employed among 372 school adolescents from 15 to 25 April 2016. A list of school adolescents aged 15–19 years old from students’ register was taken as a sampling frame. Then, simple random sampling was employed using computer-generated random numbers for final study participants’ selection. A pretested self-administered questionnaire was used. The data were entered into Epidata version 4.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 20. A bivariable and multivariable logistic regression analysis was carried out. Results: Ninety-one (24.5%) adolescents ever practiced sexual intercourse, of which 19.1% of them were exposed to risky sexual behaviors. Unfavorable life skill dimensions, that is, social (adjusted odds ratio = 3.71; 95% confidence interval = 1.64, 8.38), coping with emotions (adjusted odds ratio = 3.114; 95% confidence interval = 1.286, 7.542), and cognitive (adjusted odds ratio = 2.835; 95% confidence interval = 1.288, 6.239), were found to be statistically significant associations with risky sexual behaviors, after controlling for confounders, that is, use of psychoactive substance (adjusted odds ratio = 6.73; 95% confidence interval = 2.27, 19.87) and urban adolescents who dwell in a rental house (adjusted odds ratio = 4.05; 95% confidence interval = 1.59, 10.33) as compared to those living with families. Conclusion: Developing life skills helps adolescents make more reasoned and intentional choices sexually, which will result in fewer unwanted pregnancies, less sexually transmitted disease, and stronger relationships.

Adequate nutrition during infancy is essential for children's normal development and well-being. However, the duration of breastfeeding has been declining and is being replaced by formula feeding, particularly in the urban communities of developing countries, including Ethiopia. Hence, this study aimed to assess formula feeding and its associated factors, as relatively little information is available regarding this problem in Ethiopia, particularly in Mettu Town. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Mettu Town from May 17 to July 1, 2021, among 366 mothers with infants 0-6 months old. A simple random sampling technique was used in this study.Pre-tested semi-structured questionnaires were used to collect the data. Descriptive statistics and multivariable logistic regression were performed, and variables with a p-value <0.05 in the final model were declared statistically significant with formula feeding found to be 28.4% [95%

Background Unlike other causes such as abortion, obstetric complications like hemorrhage, and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, which are difficult to resolve for women who give birth out of health facilities are persisted or increased to be the cause of maternal mortality in Ethiopia. Direct obstetric complications resulted in the crude direct obstetric case fatality rate in this country. This study aimed to assess the relationship between Complication Experience during Pregnancy and Place of Delivery among Pregnant Women. Method A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the baseline information as a part of a randomized control trial study. The sample size that was calculated for the cohort study with the assumptions to detect an increase in a minimum acceptable diet from 11 to 31%, with 95% CIs and 80% power, an intra-cluster correlation coefficient of 0·2 for a cluster size of 10 was used for this study. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 22. Result The prevalence of self-reported pregnancy-related complications and home delivery were 79(15.9%, CI; 12.7–19.1) and 46.90% (95%CI; 42.5–51.1) respectively. Women who did not face vaginal bleeding were five times AOR 5.28(95% CI: 1.79–15.56) more like to give birth at home than those who faced this problem. Women who did not face severe headache were nearly three AOR 2.45(95%CI:1.01–5.97) times more like to give birth at home. Conclusion This study concluded that home delivery was high among the study participants whereas pregnancy-related complications such as vaginal bleeding and severe headache were identified as protective factors for facility delivery. Hence, the researchers recommended the incorporation of “storytelling” into the existing health extension program packages to improve facility delivery which shall be applied after the approval of its effectiveness by further research.

Background Unlike other causes such as abortion, obstetric complications like hemorrhage, and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, which are difficult to resolve for women who give birth out of health facilities are persisted or increased to be the cause of maternal mortality in Ethiopia. Direct obstetric complications resulted in the crude direct obstetric case fatality rate in Ethiopia. This study aimed to assess the relationship between Complication Experience during Pregnancy and Place of Delivery among Pregnant Women. Method A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the baseline information as a part of a randomized control trial study. The sample size that was calculated for the cohort study with the assumptions to detect an increase in a minimum acceptable diet from 11 to 31%, with 95% CIs and 80% power, an intra-cluster correlation coefficient of 0·2 for a cluster size of 10 was used for this study. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 22. Result The prevalence of self-reported pregnancy-related complications and home delivery were 79(15.9%, CI; 12.7–19.1) and 46.90%( 95%CI; 42.5–51.1) respectively. Women who did not face vaginal bleeding were five times AOR 5.28 (95% CI: 1.79–15.56) more like to give birth at home than those who faced this problem. Women who did not face severe headache were nearly three AOR 2.45(95%CI:1.01–5.97) times more like to give birth at home. Conclusion This study concluded that home delivery was high among the study participants whereas pregnancy-related complications such as vaginal bleeding and severe headache were identified as protective factors for facility delivery. Hence, the researchers recommended the incorporation of “storytelling” into the existing health extension program packages to improve facility delivery which shall be applied after the approval of its effectiveness by research.