Knowledge and Practice of Immediate Newborn Care Among Midwives in Governmental Health Facilities at Central Zone, Tigray Regional State, North Ethiopia.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Murugan Rajalakshmi | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tsegay Tesfaye | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-23T06:35:46Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-06T09:01:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-23T06:35:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-06T09:01:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: Newborn is considered to be tiny and powerless, completely dependent onother for life within one minute of birth the normal new born adapts from a dependent fetalexistence to an independent one; capable of breathing and carrying on life process. The firsthours are crucial because multiple organ system is making the transition from intrauterine toextra uterine functions. The care given immediately after birth is simple but important. Objective: To assess Knowledge and practice of immediate newborn care among Midwivesin governmental health facilities at central zone, Tigray regional state, north Ethiopia, fromJanuary- June, 2015. Methods: An institutional based cross-sectional quantitative descriptive study design wasused for this study. Sample size was calculated by using sample correction formula andsample size was 150 midwives. In Central zone all woreda health facilities were included inthe study. Final study subject were selected using non probability convenience methods. The data was collected after pre-tested the questionnaire. Observation method was usedstandardized 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 toSPSS 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 rateof 98%. Of these, 59.9% midwives were working in health center, 99.3% were ethnicity ofTigray and 79.6% were females. 23.8% respondents were in the age group of 25-29 and the mean age ofrespondents was 34.1 years. Among the total participants, 99.3% of midwiveswere applied eye ointment to immediately born baby. The general knowledge of participantson immediate newborn care was 17.7% good and 25.2% poor. Regarding immediate newborncare 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 thoseworking 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 andpractice gap of care given to newborn baby. So it is necessary to strengthen in-servicetraining given to midwives on immediate newborn care periodically. Further study onknowledge and practice of midwives regarding immediate newborn care is recommended. Keyword: Knowledge, practice and newborn care. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/9653 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Knowledge Practice and newborn care | en_US |
| dc.title | Knowledge and Practice of Immediate Newborn Care Among Midwives in Governmental Health Facilities at Central Zone, Tigray Regional State, North Ethiopia. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |