Tsegay, Tesfay (2015) Knowledge and Practice of Immediate Newborn Care among Midwives in Governmental Health Facilities at Central Zone, Tigray Regional State, North Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: Newborn is considered to be tiny and powerless, completely dependent on other for life within one minute of birth the normal new born adapts from a dependent fetal existence to an independent one; capable of breathing and carrying on life process. The first hours are crucial because multiple organ system is making the transition from intrauterine to extra uterine functions. The care given immediately after birth is simple but important. Objective: To assess Knowledge and practice of immediate newborn care among Midwives in governmental health facilities at central zone, Tigray regional state, north Ethiopia, from January- June, 2015. Methods: An institutional based cross-sectional quantitative descriptive study design was used for this study. Sample size was calculated by using sample correction formula and sample size was 150 midwives. In Central zone all woreda health facilities were included in the study. Final study subject were selected using non probability convenience methods. The data was collected after pre-tested the questionnaire. Observation method was used standardized checklist adopted from save the children international followed by interview. The collected data was coded and entered to EPI-Info version 3.5.1 and data was exported to SPSS version 21.0. Finally, result was presented in texts, graphs and tables. Result: Out of 150 samples size 147 were participated in the study making the response rate of 98%. Of these, 59.9% midwives were working in health center, 99.3% were ethnicity of Tigray and 79.6% were females. 23.8% respondents were in the age group of 25-29 and the mean age of respondents was 34.1 years. Among the total participants, 99.3% of midwives were applied eye ointment to immediately born baby. The general knowledge of participants on immediate newborn care was 17.7% good and 25.2% poor. Regarding immediate newborn care practice 52.4% were practiced but remaining 47.6% of respondents were not practiced. Work environment was significantly associated with practice of immediate newborn care. Midwives working in health center were 82% lower odds of newborn care compared to those working in hospital (p=0.000, OR=0.18 (0.07, 0.43) Conclusion and Recommendation: Most midwives have received in-service training on immediate newborn care, even though the Study result showed presence of knowledge and practice gap of care given to newborn baby. So it is necessary to strengthen in-service training given to midwives on immediate newborn care periodically. Further study on knowledge and practice of midwives regarding immediate newborn care is recommended.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Knowledge, practice and newborn care |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Aug 2018 14:06 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2018 14:06 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/8189 |
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