Knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities, Tigray, Ethiopia: cross sectional study

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities Tigray region, 2016. RESULTS: The mean age of the study participants was 34.1 years. Majority of the participants (83%) were diploma midwives...

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Autores principales: Tsegay Gebru, Tesfay, Murugan, Rajalakshmi, Gebremariam Abrha, Alem, Haftom Goyteom, Mekonnen
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6685261/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31387618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4532-5
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author Tsegay Gebru, Tesfay
Murugan, Rajalakshmi
Gebremariam Abrha, Alem
Haftom Goyteom, Mekonnen
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Murugan, Rajalakshmi
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description OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities Tigray region, 2016. RESULTS: The mean age of the study participants was 34.1 years. Majority of the participants (83%) were diploma midwives. The score of knowledge of participants on immediate new-born care was 17.7% good and 25.2% poor. More than half (52.4%) of midwives practiced immediate new-born care. Midwives working in health center have 82% lower odds of new-born care compared to those working in hospital (p = 0.000, OR = 0.18 (0.07, 0.43). ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4532-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-66852612019-08-12 Knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities, Tigray, Ethiopia: cross sectional study Tsegay Gebru, Tesfay Murugan, Rajalakshmi Gebremariam Abrha, Alem Haftom Goyteom, Mekonnen BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities Tigray region, 2016. RESULTS: The mean age of the study participants was 34.1 years. Majority of the participants (83%) were diploma midwives. The score of knowledge of participants on immediate new-born care was 17.7% good and 25.2% poor. More than half (52.4%) of midwives practiced immediate new-born care. Midwives working in health center have 82% lower odds of new-born care compared to those working in hospital (p = 0.000, OR = 0.18 (0.07, 0.43). ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4532-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6685261/ /pubmed/31387618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4532-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 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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Tsegay Gebru, Tesfay
Murugan, Rajalakshmi
Gebremariam Abrha, Alem
Haftom Goyteom, Mekonnen
Knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities, Tigray, Ethiopia: cross sectional study
title Knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities, Tigray, Ethiopia: cross sectional study
title_full Knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities, Tigray, Ethiopia: cross sectional study
title_fullStr Knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities, Tigray, Ethiopia: cross sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities, Tigray, Ethiopia: cross sectional study
title_short Knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities, Tigray, Ethiopia: cross sectional study
title_sort knowledge and practice of immediate new-born care among midwives in central zone public health facilities, tigray, ethiopia: cross sectional study
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6685261/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31387618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4532-5
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