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Growth Monitoring and Promotion Index Development: A Novel Approach

Background: There are few growth monitoring and promotion indexes, and currently none of them include any metrics that measure caregiver behaviours. No index to date combines the metrics of both community health worker activeness and caregiver barriers and facilitators towards growth monitoring and...

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Autores principales: Moyo, Shamiso Alice, Mashau, Ntsieni Stella, Makhado, Lufuno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10379847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37510452
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11142011
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description Background: There are few growth monitoring and promotion indexes, and currently none of them include any metrics that measure caregiver behaviours. No index to date combines the metrics of both community health worker activeness and caregiver barriers and facilitators towards growth monitoring and promotion (GMP). This study developed a new growth monitoring and promotion index and validated it using the Delphi Technique. Methods: The study began with phase 1, which was a scoping review of the literature on GMP indexes. Phase 2 involved a community health worker (CHW) survey which explored the process of GMP within the Umguza health system, and determined how knowledge of GMP by CHWs translated to frequency of activities. A barrier analysis was also conducted with caregivers of children under five to determine the barriers and facilitators towards GMP attendance by caregivers. Phase 3 was the construction of the index along with its validation, using the Delphi Technique where fifteen experts within the health and nutrition sector were consulted to analyse the constructs/variables of the index. Results: A growth monitoring and promotion index was developed and validated by several technical experts in the health and nutrition sector in Zimbabwe. Conclusions: A new index has been developed to improve the quality of growth monitoring and promotion activities within the communities.
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spelling pubmed-103798472023-07-29 Growth Monitoring and Promotion Index Development: A Novel Approach Moyo, Shamiso Alice Mashau, Ntsieni Stella Makhado, Lufuno Healthcare (Basel) Article Background: There are few growth monitoring and promotion indexes, and currently none of them include any metrics that measure caregiver behaviours. No index to date combines the metrics of both community health worker activeness and caregiver barriers and facilitators towards growth monitoring and promotion (GMP). This study developed a new growth monitoring and promotion index and validated it using the Delphi Technique. Methods: The study began with phase 1, which was a scoping review of the literature on GMP indexes. Phase 2 involved a community health worker (CHW) survey which explored the process of GMP within the Umguza health system, and determined how knowledge of GMP by CHWs translated to frequency of activities. A barrier analysis was also conducted with caregivers of children under five to determine the barriers and facilitators towards GMP attendance by caregivers. Phase 3 was the construction of the index along with its validation, using the Delphi Technique where fifteen experts within the health and nutrition sector were consulted to analyse the constructs/variables of the index. Results: A growth monitoring and promotion index was developed and validated by several technical experts in the health and nutrition sector in Zimbabwe. Conclusions: A new index has been developed to improve the quality of growth monitoring and promotion activities within the communities. MDPI 2023-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10379847/ /pubmed/37510452 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11142011 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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