Knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in governmental health facilities of central zone, Tigray region, north Ethiopia: cross sectional study

Abstract Objective The objective of this study was to assess knowledge and practice of immediate newborn care among midwives in governmental health facilities of central zone of Tigray regional state, 2016. Results The mean age of the study participants was 34.1 years. Majority of the participants (83%) were diploma midwives. The score of knowledge of participants on immediate newborn care was 17.7% good and 25.2% poor. More than half (52.4%) of midwives practiced immediate newborn care. Midwives working in health center have 82% lower odds of newborn care compared to those working in hospital (p=0.000, OR=0.18 (0.07, 0.43).

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Knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health Facilities, Tigray, Ethiopia: cross sectional study.

10.21203/rs.2.11489/v2 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Tesfay Tsegay Gebru ◽

Rajalakshmi Murugan ◽

Alem Gebremariam Abrha ◽

Mekonnen Haftom Goyteom

Keyword(s):

Newborn Care ◽

Central Zone ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Health Facilities ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Immediate Newborn Care ◽

The Mean ◽

Knowledge And Practice ◽

Study Participants

Abstract Objective The objective of this study was to assess knowledge and practice of immediate newborn care among midwives in governmental health facilities of central zone of Tigray regional state, 2016. Results The mean age of the study participants was 34.1 years. Majority of the participants (83%) were diploma midwives. The score of knowledge of participants on immediate newborn care was 17.7% good and 25.2% poor. More than half (52.4%) of midwives practiced immediate newborn care. Midwives working in health center have 82% lower odds of newborn care compared to those working in hospital (p=0.000, OR=0.18 (0.07, 0.43).

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Knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities, Tigray, Ethiopia: cross sectional study

BMC Research Notes ◽

10.1186/s13104-019-4532-5 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tesfay Tsegay Gebru ◽

Rajalakshmi Murugan ◽

Alem Gebremariam Abrha ◽

Mekonnen Haftom Goyteom

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Central Zone ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Health Facilities ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Public Health Facilities ◽

New Born ◽

Knowledge And Practice

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Knowledge and practice of clients on preventive measures of COVID-19 pandemic among governmental health facilities in South Wollo, Ethiopia: A facility-based cross-sectional study

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0247639 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. e0247639

Author(s):

Reta Dewau ◽

Tefera Chane Mekonnen ◽

Sisay Eshete Tadesse ◽

Amare Muche ◽

Getahun Gebre Bogale ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Health Facilities ◽

Urban Residents ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Prevention Strategies ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Preventive Practice ◽

Preventive Practices ◽

The Mean ◽

Knowledge And Practice

Introduction Coronavirus-19 is a global health challenge and need an immediate action. Thus, understanding client’s knowledge about SARS-COV2 causes, roots of transmissions, and prevention strategies are urgently warranted. Although there were global studies reported knowledge and preventive practices of COVID-19, but the information is not representative and inclusive for Ethiopia. Thus, the current study is done to identify the knowledge and the prevention strategies for COVID-19 among clients in South Wollo, Ethiopia. Methods An institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted from May 21 to 30, 2020 among clients seeking service in Dessie town health facilities. A total of 81 clients were included from the selected health facilities with simple random sampling technique. We developed measuring tools by adopting from World Health Organization and center for disease prevention recommendation manual for assessing service providers’ knowledge and preventive practices. For data entry Epi-data 3.1 version was employed and further data management and analysis was performed using STATA Version 14. Student T-test and one way ANOVA were computed to see the mean difference in knowledge and practice between and among the group. Chi-square test was also done to portray the presence of association between different co-variants with client’s knowledge and preventive practices. Results Findings of the study showed that more than half (56.8%) of the participants had good knowledge about its symptoms, way of spread and prevention of the virus. Furthermore, 65.4% of clients demonstrated five or more preventive practice measures of COVID-19. The mean preventive practice score with standard deviation was (4.75±1.28 from 6 components). In the current study, knowledge had no significant difference among sex, education status, and monthly income. However, COVID-19 transmission knowledge was significantly higher among urban residents. Thus, clients who were knowledgeable about way of transmission and symptoms of COVID-19 had significantly higher COVID-19 preventive practice. Conclusion Our findings revealed that clients’ knowledge and preventive practice of COVID-19 were not optimal. Clients with good knowledge and urban residents had practiced better prevention measures of the pandemic, signifying that packages and programs directed in enhancing knowledge about the virus is useful in combating the pandemic and continuing safe practices.

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ASSESSMENT OF SKILLED BIRTH ATTENDANTS REGARDING HELPING BABIES BREATH INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE NEWBORN CARE IN RURAL DISTRICT OF SINDH

Pakistan Journal of Public Health ◽

10.32413/pjph.v7i1.24 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 48-53

Author(s):

Sheh Mureed ◽

Muhammad Hassan Gandro ◽

Walid Hassan

Keyword(s):

Newborn Care ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Vital Role ◽

Skilled Birth Attendants ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Neonatal Deaths ◽

Birth Attendants ◽

Study Results ◽

Knowledge And Practice ◽

Labour Room

Background: Globally, 3.1 million newborn deaths occur every year out of these estimated 400,000 neonatal deaths occur in Pakistan. All neonatal deaths 99% take place in poorest region and countries of the world, usually within hours of birth; mostly the cause of neonatal deaths is hypoxia. To access knowledge and practice of SBAs regarding HBB and to access the availability of equipments required for HBB. Methods: Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study on SBAs as trained in HBB. All 46 SBAs trained on HBB working in Labour room eight rural Health centers, four Taluka, One district Head Quarter Health Facilities and thirteen Mlbcs of the district, were included in the sample for study. All 41 SBAs were trained on HBB participated in the study. Results: Mean age of 30 years. Out of total 41 participants 25 were working in B-EmoNC (61%), 3in C-EmoNC (7.3%) and 13 in mid wife laid birth Centre (MLBC) or birth station (31.7%). About 92.7% of participants said that main purpose of HBB training is to decrease the NMR by improving newborn care. Drying of newborn is 82.7%, hand washing is 95.12% and 85.3% of the study participants said that they gave 30-40 breaths per minutes. Cord clamp and pair of ties was accessible to 85% of participants versus 14.3% who reported it's not accessible. Almost one quarter (34.1%) participants have low knowledge and practice. Knowledge and training had significant effect on the overall practices of the skilled birth attendants for skilled birth deliveries and reduce the neonatal deaths (P <0.001). Conclusion: Tools play a vital role for the implication of the knowledge into practices and tools were available almost to every participant. Although few barriers also identified for the less application of the helping hand babies trainings in the community.

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Blinded Rechecking of AFB smear Microscopy performance in Selected private health facilities in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

10.21203/rs.3.rs-38096/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Letebrhan Weldemhret

Keyword(s):

Predictive Value ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Health Facilities ◽

Sputum Smear ◽

Smear Microscopy ◽

Northern Ethiopia ◽

Major Error ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Tigray Region

Abstract Background: Sputum smear microscopy remains the most cost-effective tool for tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment monitoring in resource constrained settings. Random blinded rechecking is a reliable tool to measure and improve smear microscopy. So, this study was intended to assess random blinded rechecking of AFB smear microscopy performance in selected private health facilities in Tigray region, Northern Ethiopia.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted from April 1st 2017 to May 30, 2017. The data was collected using standard data collection form. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 25 and the reading agreement was done using kappa statistics.Results: Of the total 269 blinded rechecked smears, 4.8% was found discrepant findings. The major and minor errors were reported by 2.6% (7/269) and 2.2% (6/269) respectively. Likewise, the major error was reported by 50% (5/10) of health facilities with microscopic center. Overall, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of the blinded rechecking smears were 87.5%, 98%, 89.7% and 97.8%, respectively with substantial reading agreement, kappa value= 0.80.Conclusions: The overall performance of blinded rechecking was satisfactory with good smear reading agreement. But, the major error reported indicated unacceptable performance. To minimize the discrepancy, private health facilities with tuberculosis smear microscopic center should adhere to national tuberculosis guidelines.

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Prevention of Renal Stone Recurrence: Knowledge and Practice Patterns Among Medical Officers of DHQ Hospital, Faisalabad

Esculapio ◽

10.51273/esc20.251632 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (03, july 2020-Septmber 2020) ◽

Author(s):

Muhammad Saifullah ◽

Hanan Noor ◽

Muhammad Waqas Iqbal ◽

Nauman Khalid ◽

Muhammad Sohail ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Renal Stone ◽

Practice Patterns ◽

Medical Officer ◽

Renal Stones ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Clinical Practices ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Stone Recurrence ◽

The Mean ◽

Knowledge And Practice

Objective: To assess the knowledge and practice patterns among medical officers of DHQ Hospital, Faisalabad in the prevention of recurrent renal stones. Cross sectional study. DHQ hospital, Faisalabad during 01-01-2019 to 30-09-2019. Methods: In this study the medical officers of either gender and age more than 25 years and working in DHQ Hospital, Faisalabad were included. They were assessed on the basis of a designed questionnaire regarding their general practice and knowledge in order to prevent renal stone recurrence. The paper based questionnaire was circulated to medical officers in different departments of the hospital. Results: In this study total 225 medical officers that were included. 135 (60%) of these participants were males and 90 (40%) were females. The mean age of the participants was 29.70±3.21 years. The mean working experience was 4.40±2.18 years. On assessment, 65.67% medical officers had adequate knowledge regarding recurrent renal stone prevention according to latest practice guidelines. Unfortunately 62.22% respondents were not practicing their knowledge adequately. Conclusion: The knowledge regarding the clinical practices in light of recent guidelines was optimal, however the practice regarding the preventive strategies was below power. Keywords; Renal stone, Recurrence, Medical officer, prevention.

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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Hypertension among Civil Servants Working in Arba Minch Town, South Ethiopia

International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) ◽

10.11591/ijphs.v5i4.4838 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 375

Author(s):

Aschenaki Kalssa ◽

Gistane Ayele ◽

Alemu Tamiso ◽

Tadele Girum

Keyword(s):

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Civil Servants ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

History Of ◽

Public Health Challenge ◽

Family History Of Hypertension ◽

The Mean ◽

Study Participants ◽

Structured Questionnaire

Despite Hypertension is a global public health challenge and a leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and death attention was not given in developing countries. Therefore measuring the prevalence and identifying predictors of Hypertension is very important. Institution based cross sectional study design was employed from March–April, 2016 by taking 319 randomly selected civil servants working in in Arba Minch town. Data was collected using structured questionnaire and standardized instruments for physical examination by 5 trained nurses. SPSS version 20 was used for data analysis. Bi-variable and Multivariate logistic regression was employed for analysis of risk factors. The mean SBP and DBP of study participants were 120.87 + 14.15 mmHg and 80.28 + 8.8 mmHg, respectively. The prevalence of hypertension was found to be 27.8% (95% CI = 22.9-32.7%). Civil servants of age 50 years and above [AOR = 13.3], age 40-49 years [AOR = 5], age 30-39 years [AOR = 3.5], abdominal obesity [AOR=12.2], general obesity [AOR = 4.2], stress status [AOR = 12.3], current alcohol drink [AOR = 3.3], ex-drinker [AOR = 8.9] and family history of hypertension [AOR = 5.6] were found to be significantly associated with hypertension. The prevalence indicates that it is hidden epidemic in this population; therefore for screening and risk reduction program are needed.

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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Hypertension among Civil Servants Working in Arba Minch Town, South Ethiopia

International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) ◽

10.11591/.v5i4.4838 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 375

Author(s):

Aschenaki Kalssa ◽

Gistane Ayele ◽

Alemu Tamiso ◽

Tadele Girum

Keyword(s):

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Civil Servants ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

History Of ◽

Public Health Challenge ◽

Family History Of Hypertension ◽

The Mean ◽

Study Participants ◽

Structured Questionnaire

Despite Hypertension is a global public health challenge and a leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and death attention was not given in developing countries. Therefore measuring the prevalence and identifying predictors of Hypertension is very important. Institution based cross sectional study design was employed from March–April, 2016 by taking 319 randomly selected civil servants working in in Arba Minch town. Data was collected using structured questionnaire and standardized instruments for physical examination by 5 trained nurses. SPSS version 20 was used for data analysis. Bi-variable and Multivariate logistic regression was employed for analysis of risk factors. The mean SBP and DBP of study participants were 120.87 + 14.15 mmHg and 80.28 + 8.8 mmHg, respectively. The prevalence of hypertension was found to be 27.8% (95% CI = 22.9-32.7%). Civil servants of age 50 years and above [AOR = 13.3], age 40-49 years [AOR = 5], age 30-39 years [AOR = 3.5], abdominal obesity [AOR=12.2], general obesity [AOR = 4.2], stress status [AOR = 12.3], current alcohol drink [AOR = 3.3], ex-drinker [AOR = 8.9] and family history of hypertension [AOR = 5.6] were found to be significantly associated with hypertension. The prevalence indicates that it is hidden epidemic in this population; therefore for screening and risk reduction program are needed.

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Knowledge and Practice of General Dental Practitioners Concerning Dental Trauma Management in Children in Ahvaz, Iran

Journal of Molecular Biology Research ◽

10.5539/jmbr.v8n1p114 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 114

Author(s):

Leyla Basir ◽

Mohsen Shayesteh ◽

Mahsa Atiyeh Heydari

Keyword(s):

Dental Trauma ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Demographic Information ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Dental Practitioners ◽

Level Of Knowledge ◽

The Mean ◽

Traumatic Dental Injuries ◽

Knowledge And Practice ◽

Dental Injuries

Background and Objectives: Traumatic dental injuries (TDIs) are unpleasant experiences for children and they necessitate to be treated as soon as possible. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the knowledge and practice of general dental practitioners (GDPs) regarding emergency management of TDIs in Ahvaz, Iran.Subjects and Methods: In this study, a two-part questionnaire was responded by 100 GDPs. The first section included questions on demographic information and the second section was composed of questions on different dental Injuries. One score was assigned to each correct answer; the total score of 10 to 30 was considered as low knowledge and practice, while scores 30-50, 50-70 and above 70 were considered as moderate, good, and high levels of knowledge and practice, respectively. The data were analyzed using Pearson’s Correlation, t-test and regression.Results: With regards to the level of GDP’s knowledge, the mean score was 59.2%. A total of 100 (51%) dentists showed a good level of knowledge. A significant association was found between knowledge and practice of GDPs in their practice encountering and treating TDI (P=0.001).Conclusion: The overall knowledge of GDPs about management of TDI in the selected community was good.

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