Effectiveness of Laboratory Mentorship Practice and Associated Factor among Public Health Laboratories, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020
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2020-12
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Addis Abeba University
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Background: - Laboratory mentorship is proven effective tool in building capacity forlaboratories in establishing quality management systems, and accreditations. In Ethiopia,specifically in Addis Ababa, only few governmental health institutions have goodStrengthening Laboratory Management towards Accreditation (SLMTA)scoring. Thus, toincrease the number of accredited Medical Laboratories, identification of challenges andstrengthening the mentorship activities is crucial.
Objective: To assess effectiveness of laboratory mentorship practice and associated factorsamong public health laboratories, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Methods:Facility based cross sectional study was conducted by collecting a secondary andprimary data from selected government owned 62 health facility and 423 laboratoryprofessionals, from January 1 to October 30, 2020 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Simple randomsampling technique used to select study participant medical laboratories facilities and medicallaboratory professionals. A structured questionnaire was employed during data collection.Thecollected data enter and analysis by SPSS version 20 statistical software. “Multivariablelogistic regression” was used to determine factors associated to effectiveness of laboratorymentorship practice.
Result:From the total of 423 respondents,114of them (27%)stated that mentors wereavailable regularly and frequently per schedule.Besides 123 (29.1%)respondents said thatmentor spent more time with mentee during mentorship practice. During the studyperiods, among 62 health facilities on the follow up, majority48 (77.2%) of them had poorscore (≤ 2 SLMTA grade), and only 14 (22.5%)heath institution had good score (≥3SLMTA grade). Factors associated with poor mentorship practice includes, Lack ofexperience N=225/423 (53.2%), lack of accountability N=269/423 (63.6%)and lack of staffcommitment N=272/423(64.3%), and all these factors had significant difference with P valueof < 0.05.
Conclusion:The present study showed that majority of medical laboratories had poormentee and mentor relationships, which was reflected by poor SLIPTA score.Main factorsaffected effective laboratory mentorship practice includes lack of staff commitment, lack ofexperience, and lack of accountability. Therefore all stakeholder give due attention toestablish effective laboratory mentorship practice, in order to improve the quality of medical laboratory services, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Laboratory mentorship, Quality management system, Accreditation