scholarly journals Impact of postnatal counseling on care of newborn

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1939
Author(s):  
Vantaku Venkata Vijayalakshmi ◽  
K. Jhansi Padma ◽  
M. Madan Mohan ◽  
D. Manikyamba ◽  
A. Krishna Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Postnatal Care ◽  
Neonatal Morbidity ◽  
Eye Care ◽  
Cord Care ◽  
Antenatal Counseling ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Postnatal Mothers ◽  
Care Practices

Background: Newborn care is an integral aspect of child health care practices. Globally 2.4 million children died in the neonatal period in 2019. Currently in India around 7.47 lakh neonates die annually. Advocating and adopting proper postnatal care of newborn in aspects of breastfeeding, immunization, warmth care, cord care, eye care etc will help in reducing neonatal morbidity and mortality.Methods: This was an hospital based cross sectional study of 100 postnatal mothers of babies admitted in NICU, in a tertiary care hospital. The knowledge of the mothers on various aspects of postnatal care was assessed by a pretest, followed by counseling and reassessment with a post test.Results: The study found that postnatal mothers had better awareness regarding breastfeeding, warmth care, cord care and oil massage. Poor knowledge was seen regarding eye care, immunization, recognition of danger signs and maternal nutrition and supplementation. Health care workers focused more on breastfeeding and warmth care practices than other aspects of postnatal care during antenatal counseling which could be a reason for this. A wide gap exists between contact with health workers and antenatal counseling. Knowledge gaps of the mothers improved significantly after counseling irrespective of their parity, education and location as seen by the increase in mean scores.Conclusions: Neonatal morbidity and mortality due to avoidable causes like hypoglycemia, hypothermia, sepsis can be achieved by practicing appropriate post-natal care practices. WHO recommendations on these practices should be widely propagated through frequent antenatal and post-natal counseling by health care workers.

scholarly journals INFANT HEALTH CARE

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (08) ◽  
pp. 978-988
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asim ◽  
Babak Mahmood ◽  
Malik Muhammad Sohail
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Postnatal Care ◽  
Infant Health ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Newborn Health ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Cord Care ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
One Year

In Pakistan 1 in every 14 infants die before reaching one year of age. Infant mortalityhighly depends upon the health care practices by the caretakers. Objective: To investigate theinfant risky health care practices and their impact on infants’ health in Pakistan. Study Design:Descriptive systematic literature review. Setting and Period: All the research articles that waspublished in between 2000 to 2015. Methods: Focusing on newborn health care practices withspecial reference to mothers utilization of antennal and postnatal care, pre-lacteal feedings,colostrum, breastfeeding, cord care practices and complementary feeding. A systematic searchof national and international literature especially from developing countries was undertakenfrom peer-reviewed indexed journals and news articles from 2000-2015 to access the infanthealth care practices. Results: sixty five articles were included in this review article. All thestudies focused on the determinants of infant health care practices. It was found that mother’sprenatal and postnatal care utilization service was poor. It was further investigated that colstrumis not preferred first feed of the mothers and family members to their infants. Mostly mothersgave the pre-lacteal feeding to their children irrespective to their education and social statusand it cause the delayed in initiating the breastfeeding to the neonates. Only a small proportionof the mothers initiate the breastfeeding with in the first hour of birth and mothers are unawareabout the importance of breastfeeding. Furthermore, the mothers are also unaware about cordcare and use conventional methods for cord care. Conclusion: It was investigated that infanthealth care practices is highly influenced by the culture and religious belifs of the caretakers.Due to the lack of proper health care of infants, Pakistan is facing high infant mortality rateand substandard infant health indicators. It is suggested that government and policy makersshould arrange the trainings/ workshops for the mothers and adolescents for the purpose todiscourage the risky health care practices.

scholarly journals Reworking Protocols in the Ophthalmology Department during the COVID-19 Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (03) ◽  
pp. 149-153
Author(s):  
Parul Chawla Gupta ◽  
Praveen Kumar-M ◽  
Jagat Ram
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Dry Eye ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Eye Care ◽  
Local Hospital ◽  
Staff Management ◽  
Ophthalmic Examination ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Examination Room

AbstractEye care professionals are susceptible to contract COVID-19 infection due to the presence of the virus in tears and conjunctival secretions and, also, partly due to the proximity required during ophthalmic examination. Although infrequent, ocular features include conjunctivitis (predominant), chemosis, follicles, itching, dry eye, and tearing. In this article, we have outlined salient safety recommendations at outpatient, inpatient and operation theater level for both patients as well as health care workers. Some of them being, creation of special triage areas at ophthalmology clinic for the screening of patients, things to be avoided at each level, procedures to manage appointments, examination room modifications, operation theater protocols, a suggestion for prioritizing cases, and finally airflow and hospital staff management. These suggestions, along with local hospital-specific modifications, will help us to go a long way in the battle against COVID-19.

scholarly journals Improving eye care in the primary health care setting

Curationis ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M De Wet ◽  
L Ackermann
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Eye Care ◽  
Primary Health Care Worker ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Service Training

One of the challenges facing primary health care in South Africa is the delivery of quality eye care to all South Africans. In this regard the role of the primary health care worker, as the first point of contact, is crucial. This paper reports on the problems primary health care workers experience in providing quality eye care in Region B of the Free State. Problems identified by those involved in the study include the cumbersome referral system, the unavailability of appropriate medicine at clinics, the insufficient knowledge of primary health care workers regarding eye conditions and the lack of communication between the various eye care service providers. Suggestions to address the problems identified included more in-service training of primary health care workers regarding eye conditions, liaison with NGO’s providing eye care, decentralisation of services and the establishment of an eye care committee in the region.

Organizational Factors and Health Care Workers' Physical Safety

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Lipscomb ◽  
Jeanne Geiger-Brown ◽  
Katherine McPhaul ◽  
Karen Calabro
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Care Workers
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