Table 3.

care seeking behavior of parents/caregivers on neonatal and young infant illness in Tiro Afeta District, Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia, 2016

What do you do when a newborn/young infant is sick?	#	%
Take to health post	70	17.5
Take to health center	371	92.8
Take to hospital	9	2.2
Call HEW	4	1.0
Take to traditional healer	13	3.2
Give home remedies	48	12.0
Take to spiritual healer	2	0.5
Do nothing/take no action	5	1.2
Reason for not taking to health facility?
Illness was not serious	3	4.4
Had no enough money	21	30.9
Long distance to health facility	3	4.4
Busy	4	5.9
High Treatment cost	23	33.8
Health workers are hostile	5	7.4
Considering that Herbs are more	9	13.2
effective
Who decides where to seek care when an infant is sick
Mother alone	89	22.3
Father alone	2	0.5
Both	309	77.3