Knowledge and Practice of Neonatal Resuscitation and Its Associated Factors among Health Professionals Working at Selected Public Hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020.
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2020-06
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Addis Abeba University
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Background: Neonatal resuscitation is an intervention performed to a new born baby who hasdifficulty in air way breathing and circulation. Resuscitation of the newly born infant presents a different set of challenges than resuscitation of the adult or even the older infant or child.However, we know little about the knowledge and practice of neonatal resuscitation amonghealth professionals in Addis Ababa.
Objective: To assess knowledge and practice of neonatal resuscitation and associated factorsamong health professionals working in intensive care units and delivery rooms from publichospitals of Addis Ababa, 2020.
Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted in public hospitals ofAddis Ababa, Ethiopia 2020. A total of 225 nurses’ midwives, pediatric residents, andobstetrics and gynecology residents working in neonatal in intensive care unit and deliveryrooms were included in this study. Data was collected by using validated self-administeredquestionnaires. The data was presented using tables, figures and texts. Simple and multiplelinear regression analysis method was used to identify factors associated with the healthprofessionals’ knowledge and practice of neonatal resuscitat ion.
Result: Two hundred sixteen of 225 participants were included in this study yielding aresponse rate of 96%. Mean knowledge score of health professionals about neonatalresuscitation was 62.7 % (±12.7%) with minimum and maximum score of 23.5% and 85.2%respectively. While overall mean practice score of participants was 59.5 % (±14.5%) with aminimum and maximum and score of 22.2% and 94.4% respectively. The findings showed thathealth professionals who had neonatal resuscitation training, last training time less than twoyears, higher educational level and attitude were significantly associated with better knowledgescore. While high knowledge score, attitude, guidelines availability in working unit weresignificantly associated to better practice score of health professionals. Whereas highereducational level significantly associated to lower practice score of the participants.
Conclusion: The overall knowledge and practice score of health professionals was low.Continuous training, supportive supervision, participants update their knowledge and includeneonatal resuscitation procedure to undergraduate and postgraduate course is encouraged.
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Neonate, Resuscitation, Knowledge, Practice, Heath professionals, Ethiopia