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Knowledge and attitudes of midwives on the use of the partogram: a study among midwives in the Tamale Metropolis

BACKGROUND: The partogram is the most effective tool to use to monitor the progress of labour and complications associated with labour. The main objective of this study was to assess the knowledge level of midwives on the effective use of the partogram in monitoring the progress of labour in the Tam...

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Autores principales: Konlan, Kennedy Diema, Kombat, Joseph M., Wuffele, Mary Gifty, Aarah-Bapuah, Milicent
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27114825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40748-016-0030-0
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author Konlan, Kennedy Diema
Kombat, Joseph M.
Wuffele, Mary Gifty
Aarah-Bapuah, Milicent
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Kombat, Joseph M.
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description BACKGROUND: The partogram is the most effective tool to use to monitor the progress of labour and complications associated with labour. The main objective of this study was to assess the knowledge level of midwives on the effective use of the partogram in monitoring the progress of labour in the Tamale Metropolis of Ghana. METHODS: This study was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted on 140 midwives selected using random sampling technique from March to July, 2011. RESULTS: The study revealed that all respondents had knowledge of the supposed use of the partogram. However, the study also identified inadequate knowledge on the proper use of the tool (as observation showed that some of the partogram sheets were inadequately filled). Inadequate knowledge, inadequate staffing (1.0 % of respondents) and extra workload on the few midwives (2.6 %) were some of the factors that militated against the effective use of the partogram. There were enough partogram sheets in the health facilities under study as 91.4 % of respondents had access to the partogram. CONCLUSION: Midwives in Ghana know about the supposed use of partogram as a monitoring tool for labour; however inadequate knowledge on the proper use of the tool and inadequate staffing militated against effective use. We recommended constant refresher training on the use of the partogram and also training of more midwives to enhance effective utilisation of the partogram.
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spelling pubmed-48432032016-04-26 Knowledge and attitudes of midwives on the use of the partogram: a study among midwives in the Tamale Metropolis Konlan, Kennedy Diema Kombat, Joseph M. Wuffele, Mary Gifty Aarah-Bapuah, Milicent Matern Health Neonatol Perinatol Research Article BACKGROUND: The partogram is the most effective tool to use to monitor the progress of labour and complications associated with labour. The main objective of this study was to assess the knowledge level of midwives on the effective use of the partogram in monitoring the progress of labour in the Tamale Metropolis of Ghana. METHODS: This study was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted on 140 midwives selected using random sampling technique from March to July, 2011. RESULTS: The study revealed that all respondents had knowledge of the supposed use of the partogram. However, the study also identified inadequate knowledge on the proper use of the tool (as observation showed that some of the partogram sheets were inadequately filled). Inadequate knowledge, inadequate staffing (1.0 % of respondents) and extra workload on the few midwives (2.6 %) were some of the factors that militated against the effective use of the partogram. There were enough partogram sheets in the health facilities under study as 91.4 % of respondents had access to the partogram. CONCLUSION: Midwives in Ghana know about the supposed use of partogram as a monitoring tool for labour; however inadequate knowledge on the proper use of the tool and inadequate staffing militated against effective use. We recommended constant refresher training on the use of the partogram and also training of more midwives to enhance effective utilisation of the partogram. BioMed Central 2016-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4843203/ /pubmed/27114825 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40748-016-0030-0 Text en © Konlan et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Knowledge and attitudes of midwives on the use of the partogram: a study among midwives in the Tamale Metropolis
title_sort knowledge and attitudes of midwives on the use of the partogram: a study among midwives in the tamale metropolis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27114825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40748-016-0030-0
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