Misganu Teshoma Regasa

Name: Misganu Teshoma Regasa

       Academic Rank: Assistant professor     

         College/Institute: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Institute of Health Sciences, Wollega University
  Department/Team: Midwifery    

   Field of Specialization: Midwifery Education

• BSc in Midwifery
• MSc in Midwifery Education

Research Interest: Maternal, Neonatal, Reproductive Health and Quality Improvement projects on health related issues

Publication list:

1. Badasa K, Abera M, Abebe M, Fikadu G, Beki M, Teshome M, Fikadu M, Takele A, Tilahun T. Improving utilisation of the WHO surgical safety checklist at Wollega University Referral Hospital: a multidimensional quality improvement project. BMJ Open Quality. 2025 May 7;14(2).
2. Bayisa G, Edessa D, Limenu K, Deyasa M, Gobana G, Obsa D, Tilahun T, Enkossa G, Takele A, Gonfaa L, Abera T,Regasa MT. Optimising timely and safe oxygen delivery systems for enhanced patient care: a quality improvement project at Wallaga University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, 2024. BMJ Open Quality. 2025 Feb 25;14(1).
3. Dinka IR, Seyoum D, Debelo S, Fikadu G, Regasa MT, Abdena HF, Jiren RT, Ayana WG. Time to recovery and its predictors among under-five children admitted with severe pneumonia in East Wallaga Zone public hospitals, western Ethiopia, 2023; a retrospective cohort study. BMC pediatrics. 2024 Jul 18;24(1):459.
4. Fetensa G, Wirtu D, Etana B, Wakuma B, Tolossa T, Gugsa J, Gobena D, Fekadu G, Ragasa MT, Ejeta E. Tuberculosis treatment delay and contributing factors within tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Heliyon. 2024 Apr 15;10(7).
5. Bayisa G, Gonfaa L, Badasa K, Dugasa N, Abebe M, Deressa H, Regassa MT, Takele A, Tilahun T. Improving medical record completeness at Wallaga University Referral Hospital: a multidimensional quality improvement project. BMJ Open Quality. 2024 Mar 8;13(1).
6. Regasa MT, Shibiru T, Tilahun T, Bayisa G, Negari GK. Congenital malaria in a 20-day-old neonate: a case report and literature review. Research and Reports in Neonatology. 2024 Dec 31:39-42.
7. Teshoma F, Tefera EG, Girma T, Ragasa MT, Yohannes E, Bulto GA, Wakgari N. Long-acting family planning switching and associated factors among revisit women in Toke Kutaye district of West Shoa Zone, Oromia Region public health facilities, Ethiopia: a mixed methods study. BMC Women's Health. 2023 Sep 25;23(1):512.
8. Ikuta KS, Swetschinski LR, Aguilar GR, Sharara F, Mestrovic T, Gray AP, Weaver ND, Wool EE, Han C, Hayoon AG, Aali A. Global mortality associated with 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet. 2022 Dec 17;400(10369):2221-48.
9. Brown A, Ahmed MB, Gebremeskel TG, Naik GR. The unfinished agenda of communicable diseases among children and adolescents before the COVID-19 pandemic, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet. 2023 Jul 22;402(10398):313-35.
10. Besho M, Kassa A, Dula D, Fetensa G, Tolossa T, Wakuma B, Regasa MT. Knowledge of periconceptional folic acid supplementation and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public health facilities in Hawassa, South Ethiopia. Birth defects research. 2023 Apr 1;115(6):647-57.
11. Bayisa D, Waltengus F, Lake S, Wakuma B, Bayisa L, Chala M, Regasa MT, Besho M, Mosisa G. Pregnant women’s knowledge, attitudes, and associated factors toward physical exercise during pregnancy among those attending antenatal care at Bahir Dar city, Northwest Ethiopia. SAGE Open Medicine. 2022 Aug;10:20503121221115252.
12. Shimalis C, Hasen T, Regasa MT, Desalegn Z, Mulisa D, Upashe SP. Complications of instrumental vaginal deliveries and associated factors in hospitals of Western Oromia, Ethiopia. SAGE open medicine. 2022 Jul;10:20503121221113091.
13. Mulisa D, Tolossa T, Oluma Ayana A, Regasa MT, Bayisa L, Abera T, Mosisa A, Wakuma B, Etafa W, Tsegaye R, Fetensa G. Nurses are leaving the nursing profession: A finding from the willingness of the nurses to stay in the nursing profession among nurses working in selected public hospitals of Wollega Zones, Oromia, Ethiopia. SAGE Open Medicine. 2022 Mar; 10:20503121221081755.
14. Alvarez EM, Force LM, Xu R, Compton K, Lu D, Henrikson HJ, Kocarnik JM, Harvey JD, Pennini A, Dean FE, Fu W. The global burden of adolescent and young adult cancer in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet Oncology. 2022 Jan 1;23(1):27-52.
15. Merga J, Wirtu D, Bekuma TT, Regasa MT. Unintended pregnancy and the factors among currently pregnant married youths in Western Oromia, Ethiopia: A mixed method. Plos one. 2021 Nov 4;16(11):e0259262.
16. Mulisa D, Tolossa T, Regasa MT, Bayisa L, Abera T, Wakuma B, Mosisa A. Autonomy of nurses in their work and associated factors in nurses of selected public hospitals of wollega zones, Oromia Regional State, Western Parts of Ethiopia, 2020. Nursing: Research and Reviews. 2021 Jun 3:1-8.
17. Regasa MT, Hinkosa L, Besho M, Bekele T, Bekuma TT, Tsegaye R, Hirko GF, Markos J, Wakgari A. Predictors of preterm birth in Western Ethiopia: A case control study. PloS one. 2021 Apr 7;16(4):e0247927.
18. Habte A.Regasa MT Assessment of Facility Based Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Western Ethiopia. Critical Care. 2020;6(5):11.
19. Woyessa AH, Teshome M, Mulatu B, Abadiga M, Hiko N, Kebede B. Disaster preparedness in selected hospitals of western Ethiopia and risk perceptions of their authorities. Open access emergency medicine. 2020 Oct 8:219-25.
20. Teshoma Regasa M, Markos J, Habte A, Upashe SP. Obstetric Danger Signs: Knowledge, Attitude, Health‐Seeking Action, and Associated Factors among Postnatal Mothers in Nekemte Town, Oromia Region, Western Ethiopia—A Community‐Based Cross‐Sectional Study. Obstetrics and Gynecology International. 2020;2020(1):6573153.
21. Fetensa G, Milkiyas N, Besho M, Hasen T, Teshoma M, Wakuma B, Etefa W, Fayisa L. Assessment of knowledge and practice of life style modification among hypertensive patients at Nekemte specialized hospital, western Oromia, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study design. J Cardiovasc Dis Diagn. 2019;7(389):2.
22. Hinkosa L, Weldearegay HG, Teshoma M, Bekele D, Tesfaye T, Beyene K, Gebeyehu N, Wakuma B. Intention to Shift from Short-Acting to Long-Acting Methods of Contraceptives and Its Associated Factors at Axum St. Mary Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study. Int. J. Nurs. Midwif. Res. 2017;4(4):4.

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