Effect of Education Program on Midwives knowledge Regarding Immediate Care of Newborn on in Governmental Hospitals Sinnar state. Sudan, 2022
Abstract
Background:Newborn immediate care is the care given to the neonate after birth by qualified personnel in the delivery room. The midwives are the first contact of the newborns so we need them to be knowledgeable and aware about initial care and assessment of the neonate to decrease incidence of mortality and morbidity rate by using standard process for the immediate care of newborn.
Aim: To assess the effect of educationprogram for immediate care of newborn on midwives knowledge.
Methods:A quasi-experimental design was conducted at Sinnar State in governmental hospitals and covered midwives who were working in Obstetrical and Gynecological departments. The sample size consisted of (96) midwives during the period of (February to July 2020). Data were collected by using questionnaire designedwas applied to the midwives pre and post intervention to determine their knowledge regarding immediate care of newborn. Data analysis was performed by statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) (Version 26) presented in tables and figure, t-test was used to test the differences between the means.
Results: The result revealed thatmidwives pre knowledge were (42.5%, 17.5% and 19.8%)for the good knowledge, satisfied knowledge and poor knowledge respectively. However for midwiferies post-knowledge were (82.3%, 9.4% and 8.3%) for the good knowledge, satisfied knowledge and poor knowledge respectively. Totalmean score of midwives knowledge were (24.1%, 68.4%) for the pre and post midwives knowledge respectively. All the parameter items for midwives knowledge were statistically significant (P≤0.05) between pre and post midwives knowledge except for vital signs taken immediately after birth.
ConclusionThe study findings showed that program had been an effectivemethod of increasing the midwives’ knowledge about immediate care newborn.
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