Evaluating know-how of Partograph among Health Professionals toward improvement of its utilization: Case of Horo Guduru Wollega Zone
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Partograph is manual base information/data capturing tool during the qualified monitoring of
labour progress, maternal and fetal conditions in labour. If the partograph is used consistently,
recorded on correctly, analyzed and interpreted insightfully, can save the lives of both
mother and child. The use of the partograph therefore becomes an essential decision-making tool
to assist the health professionals in making the correct decisions for the woman and her baby..
The project aimed to evaluate the know-how of partograph utilization and towards its
improvement among health professionals working in public health facilities to monitor labouring
mother during delivery and partograph utilization practice of health professionals and providing
appropriate intervention and conducting post intervention evaluation.
Facility based cross-sectional descriptive study design was used to determine the know-how of
the partograph among health professionals working in project area. In addition, review of
document was conducted within the selected health facilities. Finally, on the job training was
conducted as an intervention to improve the know-how of partograph among the health
professionals. Training was conducted by the principal investigator for two days. A multi-stage
cluster sampling technique was used for the project. Depending on the main objective of the
project to evaluate the know-how of partograph utilization towards its improvement, the result
revealed most of the participants were male and young. The participants of the project were
health professionals working at health centers (PHCU). Most of the participants served 2-5 years
.The majority of them did not receive in service training on the manegemanent of labour. Few of
them previously used partograph to manage labour. Most of the participants didn’t know the
components of the partograph.
Generally, the project identified that the knowledge and the utilization practice of health
professionals during the intervention was different from that of post-intervention. This shows
that training and managerial commitments did have a greater influence on the utilization of
partograph to monitor labour. Since the know-how of partograph utilization of partograph was
poor, continuing with updating the health professionals regarding obstetric care on the use of
partogram should be provided for all health professions in order to provide the quality of
obstetric care in the Zone.
KEY WORDS: Knowledge, Utilization, Partograph, Alert line, Action line
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Knowledge, Utilization, Partograph, Alert line, Action line