Papers by Habtamu Temesgen
International Breastfeeding Journal
Background Timely initiation of breastfeeding is feeding of breast milk within one hour of birth,... more Background Timely initiation of breastfeeding is feeding of breast milk within one hour of birth, however, three in five babies were not breastfed in the first hour of birth globally. There is evidence that cesarean section is the major constraint for this low prevalence, but the impact of cesarean section on timely initiation of breastfeeding in Ethiopia is limited. Therefore, this meta-analysis aimed to provide evidence for policy makers, health professionals and program implementers. Methods This systematic review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines. Electronic bibliographic databases such as PubMed/Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINHAL, Scopus, Google Scholar, Science Direct and Cochrane Library were used to search relevant studies and was conducted up to February 2021. Random effects model meta-analysis was applied to estimate the pooled impact of cesarean section on timely initiation of breastfeeding with 95% confidence interv...
SAGE Open Medicine
Objective: Postpartum depression is a common mental illness that affects lactating women. This no... more Objective: Postpartum depression is a common mental illness that affects lactating women. This not only makes daily activities difficult for them, but it also affects child’s future lives. There is little evidence of about postpartum depression and its factors in East African countries, which piqued the authors’ interest in conducting a study on this matter for future decision- and policy-making. Methods: The protocol for Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses was followed. To identify published articles, all major databases such as PubMed/MEDLINE, WHOLIS, Cochrane Library, Embase, PsycINFO, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, and reference lists were used. In addition, shelves, author contact, Google and Google Scholar were also used to identify unpublished studies. Joanna Briggs Institute—Meta-Analysis of Statistical Assessment and Review Instrument was used for critical appraisal of studies. STATA software version 14 was used for the analysis. The random-ef...
Scientific Reports
The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed a significant multifaceted threat to t... more The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed a significant multifaceted threat to the global community. Ethiopia, as a Sub-Saharan African country, is suffering from chronic food insecurity, and the emergence of such a pandemic will exacerbate the situation. As a result, this study investigated the spatial variation of non-resilience to food insecurity, its relationship with COVID-19, and household coping strategies to become resilient in the long run among households in the East Gojjam Zone of Northwest Ethiopia. From September 22 to December 24, 2020, an agro-ecological-based cross-sectional study of 3532 households was conducted to assess the spatial distribution and associated factors of non-resilience to household food insecurity. The enumeration areas (EAs) and households were chosen using a multistage sampling technique. Data were gathered using a semi-structured questionnaire and checklist using an Android device loaded with an Open Data Kit (ODK) template. Bin...
Nutrition and Metabolic Insights
Introduction: Currently, nutritional rickets has become a concern of many nutrition experts in ma... more Introduction: Currently, nutritional rickets has become a concern of many nutrition experts in many countries. Sunlight is the best and most reliable Source of vitamin D. Since, there is scarce information regarding infant sunlight exposure practice and the determinant factors. Hence, this study aimed to assess mothers’ infant sunlight exposure, practice level, and associated factors. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 884 mothers from March 20 to April 4, 2017. Through the multi-stage simple random sampling method, the study areas had selected. The data were collected using a structured and pre-tested questionnaire and were entered into Epidata version 3.1 and exported to SPSS version 20 for analysis. The strength of association was measured using binary logistic regression at a 95% CI odds ratio. Finally, P < .05% was declared statistically significant. Results: From 884 infant coupled mothers, 866 were recruited in the study with a response rate ...
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2021
Introduction tobacco is the only legal drug that kills many of its users when used exactly as int... more Introduction tobacco is the only legal drug that kills many of its users when used exactly as intended by the manufacturers. It is estimated that of the 1.1 billion smokers worldwide, nearly 80% of them live in low and middle-income countries. This trend increases in college and university students with most smokers starting to smoke during adolescent. The aim of this study is to assess cigarette smoking prevalence and associated factors among a select group of college of teachers´ education students. Methods a cross-sectional study was conducted. Multistage sampling was used to select 605 study participants from across the eight departments of the Injibara College of Teachers´ Education. Each subject was selected by simple random sampling technique after proportional allocation to each class. EpiData version 4.2 was used for data entry and Stata version 14 was used for data cleaning and analysis. Variables with p-value < 0.2 in bi-variable analysis were selected for multi-variab...
Scientific Reports, 2022
Antiretroviral therapy lowers viral load only when people living with HIV maintain their treatmen... more Antiretroviral therapy lowers viral load only when people living with HIV maintain their treatment retention. Lost to follow-up is the persistent major challenge to the success of ART program in low-resource settings including Ethiopia. The purpose of this study is to estimate time to lost to follow-up and its predictors in antiretroviral therapies amongst adult patients. Among registered HIV patients, 542 samples were included. Data cleaning and analysis were done using Stata/SE version 14 software. In multivariable Cox regression, a p-value < 0.05 at 95% confidence interval with corresponding adjusted hazards ratio (AHR) were statistically significant predictors. In this study, the median time to lost to follow-up is 77 months. The incidence density of lost to follow-up was 13.45 (95% CI: 11.78, 15.34) per 100 person-years. Antiretroviral therapy drug adherence [AHR: 3.04 (95% CI: 2.18, 4.24)], last functional status [AHR: 2.74 (95% CI: 2.04, 3.67)], and INH prophylaxis [AHR: 1...
Additional file 2. Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical quality appraisal tool for prevalence s... more Additional file 2. Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical quality appraisal tool for prevalence studies
Additional file 1. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols (... more Additional file 1. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols (PRISMA) checklist guidelines
Questionnaire prepared for assessment of minimum acceptable diet among Infants and young children... more Questionnaire prepared for assessment of minimum acceptable diet among Infants and young children aged between 6-23 months in Fasting season, Dembecha, North -West Ethiopia, 2018 (DOCX 70 kb)
SAGE Open Medicine, 2022
Evidence of variation in maternity health service practices has increased the government’s intere... more Evidence of variation in maternity health service practices has increased the government’s interest in quantifying and advancing the quality of institutional delivery care in the developing world, including Ethiopia. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to update and provide more representative data on women’s satisfaction with skilled delivery care and the associated factors in Ethiopia. This systematic review and meta-analysis followed the Preferred Reporting Items 2015 guideline. We searched PubMed/Medline, SCOPUS, Embase, Web of Science, and Google Scholar electronic databases for all 36 included studies. The pooled prevalence of women’s satisfaction with skilled delivery care and the associated factors were estimated using a random-effects model. Subgroup analysis and meta-regression were performed to identify the source of heterogeneity. Furthermore, publication bias was checked using eggers and funnel plots. All statistical analyses were performed usi...
This study investigates effect of land use and land cover change (LUCC) on some soil physical and... more This study investigates effect of land use and land cover change (LUCC) on some soil physical and chemical properties at Ameleke micro-watershed, South Ethiopia. Satellite images of 1986, 2000 and 2006 were used to analyze LUCCs of the watershed. For the purpose of soil sampling, the watershed was divided in to three altitudinal belts, from each of which two sample sites were taken. From each sample site, composite soil samples were collected from agroforestry, crop land, grass land and shrub lands in three replications at 0-15cm and 15-30 cm depth and selected soil physical and chemical properties were analyzed. The result of the land use/cover analyses showed that agroforestry and crop lands occupy larger part of the upland while grass and shrub lands occupy larger part of the middle and lower altitude of the watershed. The change detection study revealed that from 1986 to 2006, crop land area increased from 23.3 % to 31.0%; grass lands decreased from 25.9 % to 14.96% and shrub la...
Background: Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disease in which there is high blood glucos... more Background: Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disease in which there is high blood glucose level over a prolonged period of time, chronic multi system disease related to abnormal insulin production, impaired insulin utilization and both. Risk of diabetes are obesity, being young or old age, family history of diabetes, history gestational diabetes, impaired, glucose metabolism, physical inactivity and ethnicity/race respectively. In type one diabetes mellitus insulin injection is needed to control the blood glucose level where as in type two diabetes mellitus the first line treatment is life style modification like diet management, exercise, and weight reduction then if uncontrolled use oral hypoglycemic agent.Objective: The main aim of the study was to assess Knowledge, Attitude, practice and their associated factor towards diabetes mellitus in Debre Markos town, northwest , Amhara Regional state, Ethiopia 2020 GC.Methodology: a community based cross-sectional study was cond...
Advances in Public Health, 2021
Background. Infant and young child feeding in the context of human immunodeficiency virus- (HIV-)... more Background. Infant and young child feeding in the context of human immunodeficiency virus- (HIV-) infected mothers has significant challenges due to the risk of transmission of the virus via breastfeeding. In Ethiopia, a number of independent studies have been conducted to assess the feeding practice of HIV-exposed infants. But, there is no concrete evidence to show the national figure in Ethiopia. Hence, this review and meta-analysis aims to estimate the pooled prevalence of feeding practices among HIV exposed infants in Ethiopia. Methods. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guideline was followed. Articles were searched through search engines in PubMed, Cochrane Library, Google Scholar, and direct Google search. Joanna Briggs Institute Meta-Analysis of Statistics Assessment and Review Instrument adapted for cross-sectional study design was used for quality assessment. The random effects model was used to estimate the pooled prevalence of...
Background: TB is the leading cause of death from an infectious disease in Ethiopia, killing more... more Background: TB is the leading cause of death from an infectious disease in Ethiopia, killing more than 30 thousand people every year. Cigarette Smoking increases the risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB), increases the risk of recurrent TB and impairs the response to treatment of the disease. The association between smoking and tuberculosis (TB), which has been proven in multiple studies with different study population, has not yet received sufficient attention in terms of TB control in Ethiopia. Therefore, the main objective of this meta-analysis was to estimate the pooled prevalence of tuberculosis and association with cigarette smoking in Ethiopia. Methods: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guideline was followed. Articles were systematically searched through different searching mechanisms. Joanna Briggs Institute Meta-Analysis of Statistics Assessment and Review Instrument was used for quality assessment of each individual study. A total of 1...
Food and Energy Security, 2021
Journal of Pediatrics & Neonatal Biology, 2021
Background: Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin. It comes retinol from animal sources or beta-caro... more Background: Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin. It comes retinol from animal sources or beta-carotene from plant source. Vitamin A contains breast milk after the post-weaning period and their increased nutrient demand of children from 6-59 months, they are considered highly affected segments of the community. Hence, study assesses vitamin A deficiency and associated factors among children aged 6-59 months in Dera district, Northwest Ethiopia. Methods: Cross-sectional study design was conducted via multistage sampling techniques. Data were coded and entered into Epi-data version 3.1 and exported to Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 for analysis. The bivariate and multiple variable logistic regression analyses were fitted. Results: Total response rate 94.7%. Prevalence of vitamin A deficiency among children age from 6-59 months was 7.8% (95% CI: 4.7, 11.3). Anti natal care (ANC) follow-up (AOR =0.446:95 % CI; 0.155, 0.980), and birth interval (AOR= 0.392: 9...
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 2021
Abstract Through the increased use of innovation, human population has been growing rapidly in it... more Abstract Through the increased use of innovation, human population has been growing rapidly in its ability to derive resources from the environment. Predicting how land use/cover (LUC) changes affect regions and the society requires a good understanding of the dynamic human-environment interactions associated with land use change. This article addresses the future spatial distribution of land use and the impacts that ongoing LUC change have on the ecosystems of Gedeo-Abaya landscape. The actual LUC maps of 2000 and 2015 reference years together with natural and socioeconomic indicators were used in a combined Markov–CA model with GIS technology to simulate and forecast the changes in 2025 and 2035. Our prediction processes shows among the indicators used, distance to the nearest road and slope have more significant effects on the transition potential maps followed by elevation. Area based prediction change generally shows significant increase in agroforestry, cultivation land, and wetland/marshes LUC classes, while most natural vegetation classes, particularly woodland/shrubland (−29.8%), and grazing land (−5.7%) show significant reduction from 2015 to 2035. The present and forecasted trend of LUC changes has visible environmental and socioeconomic impacts, particularly on woodland ecosystems and on the well-being of (agro)pastoral communities in the downstream. Whilst, the betterment of the upstream study region strongly depends on the continuity with the current government landscape restoration policy as well as on the permanence of farmers current environmental friendly land management practices. Forecasting LUC changes in the study landscape offers the possibility that unwanted changes are prevented through proper and timely interventions.
Environmental Challenges, 2021
Safe and adequate quantity of water is crucial for the implementation of infection prevention and... more Safe and adequate quantity of water is crucial for the implementation of infection prevention and control measures during the prevention of COVID-19. Rainwater harvesting could be an optional water source to fulfill or support the emergency water demand in areas where there is abundant rainfall. The study aimed to assess the rainwater harvesting potential and storage requirements for households and selected institutions and to determine its adequacy to satisfy the emergency water demand for the prevention of COVID-19 in Dilla town, Southern Ethiopia. Rainwater harvesting potential for households and selected institutions were quantified using 17 years’ worth of rainfall data from the Ethiopian Meteorology Agency. To address the rainfall variability, we computed the confidence limits of monthly harvest-able rainwater potential using confidence intervals about the mean as well as confidence intervals using Coefficient of Variation (COV) of monthly rainfall. The storage requirements were also estimated by considering the driest and west seasons and months. The average annual rainfall in Dilla town was 1464 mm. Households with a roof area of 40 m2 and 100 m2 have the potential to harvest 7.2-39.66 m3 and 19.11-105.35 m3 of rainwater respectively. Similarly, the rainwater harvesting potential for the selected institutions was in the range of 34524.5-190374.5m3, 4070.8-14964.8 m3, 1140.4-6288.6 m3, 4561.7-25154.3 m3, 5605.8-14152.8 m3, and 402.4-2219.1 m3 of rainwater for colleges, vocational schools, secondary schools, primary schools, Dilla University Referral Hospital and health centers respectively. These institutional rainwater harvesting potentials can address, 24-132.2, 222.4 -817.8, 59.4-327.3, 34.6-190.9, 94.5-238.5, and 28.2-155.7 % of the colleges, vocational schools, secondary schools, primary schools, Dilla University referral hospital, and Rainwater can be an alternative water source for the town in the fight against COVID-19. Further applied researches must be conducted that can address the rainwater quality and treatment for ease of use.
Background Bread is one of the most popular and widespread baked products in the world. It is an ... more Background Bread is one of the most popular and widespread baked products in the world. It is an important staple food made of wheat flour, salt, and yeast. However, wheat protein is lower than that of proteins from pulses. White lupine is a good source of protein, fiber, minerals, and vitamins. It has some anti-nutritional factors which inhibit its consumption. The use of lupine as human food, specifically in baked products has been limited. Objective This study was conducted to investigate the effect of blending ratio and processing of lupine bean on nutritional quality and sensory evaluations of wheat-lupine bread. Methods The study was done by factorial design. All white lupine bean was prepared in a randomized completely block design (RCBD). The quality characteristics of bread were analyzed by three-way ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) was carried out to determine the F-value and the level of significance, Duncan’s multiple range tests at 5% probability were used for the compariso...
Public Health Reviews, 2020
Background: Ethiopia signed both for Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) previously and Sustainab... more Background: Ethiopia signed both for Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) previously and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) currently to improve food security through gender equality and empowerment of women by positioning them as household leader. However, there is no concrete evidence about the impact of being of the female gender for household head on the prevalence of food insecurity at the national level, the authors' intention being to fill this gap. Methods: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses protocol (PRISMA-P) guideline was followed. All major databases such as PubMed/ MEDLINE, WHOLIS, Cochrane Library, Embase, PsycINFO, ScienceDirect, Web of science, and reference lists were used to identify published articles, whereas shelves, author contact, Google, and Google Scholar were also searched to identify unpublished studies. Joanna Briggs Institute Meta-Analysis of Statistical Assessment and Review Instrument (JBI-MAStARI) was used for critical appraisal of studies. Metaanalysis was conducted using the STATA software version 14. The random effect model was used to estimate the pooled prevalence of food insecurity at 95% confidence level, while subgroup analysis and meta-regression were employed to identify the possible source of heterogeneity and the associated factors respectively. Moreover, Begg's test was used to check publication bias. Results: A total of 143 articles were identified, of which 15 studies were included in the final model with a total sample size of 2084 female-headed households. The pooled estimate of food insecurity among female-headed households was 66.11% (95% confidence level (CL) 54.61, 77.60). Female-headed households had 1.94 (95% CL 1.26, 3.01) times the odds of developing food insecurity as compared with maleheaded households in Ethiopia. However, considerable heterogeneity across studies was also exhibited (I 2 = 92.5%, p value < 0.001).
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Papers by Habtamu Temesgen