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Routine health information utilization and associated factors among health care workers in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Utilization of routine health information plays a vital role for the effectiveness of routine and programed decisions. A proper utilization of routine health information helps to make decisions based on evidence. Considerable studies have been done on the utilization of routine health in...

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Autores principales: Mekonnen, Birye Dessalegn, Gebeyehu, Senafekesh Biruk
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8263267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34234370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254230
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description BACKGROUND: Utilization of routine health information plays a vital role for the effectiveness of routine and programed decisions. A proper utilization of routine health information helps to make decisions based on evidence. Considerable studies have been done on the utilization of routine health information among health workers in Ethiopia, but inconsistent findings were reported. Thus, this study was conducted to determine the pooled utilization of routine health information and to identify associated factors among health workers in Ethiopia. METHODS: Search of PubMed, HINARI, Global Health, Scopus, EMBASE, web of science, and Google Scholar was conducted to identify relevant studies from October 24, 2020 to November 18, 2020. The Newcastle-Ottawa scale tool was used to assess the quality of included studies. Two reviewers extracted the data independently using a standardized data extraction format and exported to STATA software version 11 for meta-analysis. Heterogeneity among studies was checked using Cochrane Q and I(2) test statistics. The pooled estimate of utilization of routine health information was executed using a random effect model. RESULTS: After reviewing 22924 studies, 10 studies involving 4054 health workers were included for this review and meta-analysis. The pooled estimate of routine health information utilization among health workers in Ethiopia was 57.42% (95% CI: 41.48, 73.36). Supportive supervision (AOR = 2.25; 95% CI: 1.80, 2.82), regular feedback (AOR = 2.86; 95% CI: 1.60, 5.12), availability of standard guideline (AOR = 2.53; 95% CI: 1.80, 3.58), data management knowledge (AOR = 3.04; 95% CI: 1.75, 5.29) and training on health information (AOR = 3.45; 95% CI: 1.96, 6.07) were identified factors associated with utilization of routine health information. CONCLUSION: This systematic review and meta-analysis found that more than two-fifth of health workers did not use their routine health information. This study suggests the need to conduct regular supportive supervision, provision of training and capacity building, mentoring on competence of routine health information tasks, and strengthening regular feedback at all health facilities. In addition, improving the accessibility and availability of standard set of indicators is important to scale-up information use.
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spelling pubmed-82632672021-07-19 Routine health information utilization and associated factors among health care workers in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis Mekonnen, Birye Dessalegn Gebeyehu, Senafekesh Biruk PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Utilization of routine health information plays a vital role for the effectiveness of routine and programed decisions. A proper utilization of routine health information helps to make decisions based on evidence. Considerable studies have been done on the utilization of routine health information among health workers in Ethiopia, but inconsistent findings were reported. Thus, this study was conducted to determine the pooled utilization of routine health information and to identify associated factors among health workers in Ethiopia. METHODS: Search of PubMed, HINARI, Global Health, Scopus, EMBASE, web of science, and Google Scholar was conducted to identify relevant studies from October 24, 2020 to November 18, 2020. The Newcastle-Ottawa scale tool was used to assess the quality of included studies. Two reviewers extracted the data independently using a standardized data extraction format and exported to STATA software version 11 for meta-analysis. Heterogeneity among studies was checked using Cochrane Q and I(2) test statistics. The pooled estimate of utilization of routine health information was executed using a random effect model. RESULTS: After reviewing 22924 studies, 10 studies involving 4054 health workers were included for this review and meta-analysis. The pooled estimate of routine health information utilization among health workers in Ethiopia was 57.42% (95% CI: 41.48, 73.36). Supportive supervision (AOR = 2.25; 95% CI: 1.80, 2.82), regular feedback (AOR = 2.86; 95% CI: 1.60, 5.12), availability of standard guideline (AOR = 2.53; 95% CI: 1.80, 3.58), data management knowledge (AOR = 3.04; 95% CI: 1.75, 5.29) and training on health information (AOR = 3.45; 95% CI: 1.96, 6.07) were identified factors associated with utilization of routine health information. CONCLUSION: This systematic review and meta-analysis found that more than two-fifth of health workers did not use their routine health information. This study suggests the need to conduct regular supportive supervision, provision of training and capacity building, mentoring on competence of routine health information tasks, and strengthening regular feedback at all health facilities. In addition, improving the accessibility and availability of standard set of indicators is important to scale-up information use. Public Library of Science 2021-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8263267/ /pubmed/34234370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254230 Text en © 2021 Mekonnen, Gebeyehu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Routine health information utilization and associated factors among health care workers in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
title_fullStr Routine health information utilization and associated factors among health care workers in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
title_full_unstemmed Routine health information utilization and associated factors among health care workers in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
title_short Routine health information utilization and associated factors among health care workers in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8263267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34234370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254230
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