Abstract

Background and objective: Childbearing is one of the most hazardous experiences that, women engage in while introducing a new life to this world. It is often associated with complications that may cause morbidities, disabilities, and mortalities. To identify the important factors which influence the respondent mother regarding not to take the health care utilization in rural area. rnMethodology: A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among 202 women from January 2014 to February 2014. This study included only female of reproductive age (15-49) with at least having one child. For data collection multistage sampling was used. Only 202 reproductive female women were interviewed in the study. rnResults: Among 202 participants, most of the respondent mothers were in less than 20 (58.4%) years. 47.5% of the respondents were from the poorest socioeconomic class. About 54.5% had at least one ANC visit during their last pregnancy. The main reasons did not receive any checkup due to illiteracy. Mother’s education had positive significant (p<0.001) effect on maternal health service use. Socioeconomic status (p<0.001) and transport cost also had significant effect on the use of ANC services. Logistic regression analysis showed that, respondents who had secondary-level education were 13.5 times more likely to use ANC adequately compared to those who had no education.rnConclusion: The findings suggested that mother's education keep strong effect on maternal health service use. Household's socioeconomic status, transport cost and other hospital expenditure also influenced the utilization of modern health care services.