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The availability and functional status of focused antenatal care laboratory services at public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Provision of quality laboratory services is an essential aspect of a promoting safe motherhood and better outcomes for newborn. Therefore; this study was intended to assess status of focused antenatal care (FANC) laboratory services at public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. M...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982307/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27514511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2207-z |
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author | Desalegn, Daniel Melese Abay, Serebe Taye, Bineyam |
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description | BACKGROUND: Provision of quality laboratory services is an essential aspect of a promoting safe motherhood and better outcomes for newborn. Therefore; this study was intended to assess status of focused antenatal care (FANC) laboratory services at public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. METHODS: Institution based, descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from April to May 2015. The study included 13 randomly selected health facilities and 13 purposively selected laboratory service providers. The status of FANC laboratory service was assessed by using pre-tested structured questionnaire and observation checklist. The study supplemented with qualitative data through in-depth interview of laboratory service providers. The quantitative data were coded and analysed by using SPSS Version 20 software and qualitative data was transcribed, coded, categorized and thematically analysed by the principal investigator. RESULTS: Only 5 (38.5 %) out of 13 visited health facilities reported the availability of all types of basic FANC laboratory investigations. Comparing the availability of individual tests in the study facilities, urine dipstick, urine microscopy and stool examination were available in all institutions. However, only 7 (53.8 %) of the health facilities reported the availability of hepatitis B virus screening test. Rapid syphilis (RPR) test was found in 10 (76.9 %) facilities. All laboratory facilities had at least one or more basic FANC laboratory tests interruption for more than a day within the last 1 year due to shortage of reagent and electric power disruption. CONCLUSIONS: Majority of the health facilities reported incomplete provision of FANC laboratory investigations. Laboratory supply shortage and electric power disruption were the facilities’ major challenge to screen pregnant women for pregnancy related health conditions. Since such conditions may affect the outcome of pregnancy, therefore extensive efforts should be targeted to avoid services interruption by taking improvement measures including the fulfilment of all FANC laboratory resources. |
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spelling | pubmed-49823072016-08-13 The availability and functional status of focused antenatal care laboratory services at public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Desalegn, Daniel Melese Abay, Serebe Taye, Bineyam BMC Res Notes Research Article BACKGROUND: Provision of quality laboratory services is an essential aspect of a promoting safe motherhood and better outcomes for newborn. Therefore; this study was intended to assess status of focused antenatal care (FANC) laboratory services at public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. METHODS: Institution based, descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from April to May 2015. The study included 13 randomly selected health facilities and 13 purposively selected laboratory service providers. The status of FANC laboratory service was assessed by using pre-tested structured questionnaire and observation checklist. The study supplemented with qualitative data through in-depth interview of laboratory service providers. The quantitative data were coded and analysed by using SPSS Version 20 software and qualitative data was transcribed, coded, categorized and thematically analysed by the principal investigator. RESULTS: Only 5 (38.5 %) out of 13 visited health facilities reported the availability of all types of basic FANC laboratory investigations. Comparing the availability of individual tests in the study facilities, urine dipstick, urine microscopy and stool examination were available in all institutions. However, only 7 (53.8 %) of the health facilities reported the availability of hepatitis B virus screening test. Rapid syphilis (RPR) test was found in 10 (76.9 %) facilities. All laboratory facilities had at least one or more basic FANC laboratory tests interruption for more than a day within the last 1 year due to shortage of reagent and electric power disruption. CONCLUSIONS: Majority of the health facilities reported incomplete provision of FANC laboratory investigations. Laboratory supply shortage and electric power disruption were the facilities’ major challenge to screen pregnant women for pregnancy related health conditions. Since such conditions may affect the outcome of pregnancy, therefore extensive efforts should be targeted to avoid services interruption by taking improvement measures including the fulfilment of all FANC laboratory resources. BioMed Central 2016-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4982307/ /pubmed/27514511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2207-z Text en © The Author(s) 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Desalegn, Daniel Melese Abay, Serebe Taye, Bineyam The availability and functional status of focused antenatal care laboratory services at public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title | The availability and functional status of focused antenatal care laboratory services at public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_full | The availability and functional status of focused antenatal care laboratory services at public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_fullStr | The availability and functional status of focused antenatal care laboratory services at public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_full_unstemmed | The availability and functional status of focused antenatal care laboratory services at public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_short | The availability and functional status of focused antenatal care laboratory services at public health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
title_sort | availability and functional status of focused antenatal care laboratory services at public health facilities in addis ababa, ethiopia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982307/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27514511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2207-z |
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