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Health workers' use of routine health information and related factors at public health institutions in Illubabor Zone, Western Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Proper utilization of health data has paramount importance for health service management. However, it is less practiced in developing countries, including Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to assess routine health information utilization and identify factors associated with it among...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9131521/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35610716 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-022-01881-y |
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author | Abdisa, Amanuel Benti Hajito, Kifle Woldemichael Daka, Dawit Wolde Ergiba, Meskerem Seboka Senay, Asaye Birhanu Abdi, Ketema Lemma Wordofa, Muluemebet Abera |
author_facet | Abdisa, Amanuel Benti Hajito, Kifle Woldemichael Daka, Dawit Wolde Ergiba, Meskerem Seboka Senay, Asaye Birhanu Abdi, Ketema Lemma Wordofa, Muluemebet Abera |
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description | BACKGROUND: Proper utilization of health data has paramount importance for health service management. However, it is less practiced in developing countries, including Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to assess routine health information utilization and identify factors associated with it among health workers in the Illubabor zone, Western Ethiopia. METHODS: A facility based cross-sectional study was conducted from March to June 2021 with a total of 423 randomly selected health workers. Data were collected using an interviewer-administered questionnaire that was developed based on the performance of routine information system management (PRISM) framework. We created composite variables for health workers' knowledge, attitude, abilities, and information utilization based on existing data. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed and the statistical association between the outcome and independent variables was declared using 95% CI and a P < 0.05. RESULTS: About two-thirds or 279 health workers (66.0%, 95% CI 61.3, 70.4) had good health information utilization. Two-thirds of health workers think organizational decision-making culture (67.1%, 95% CI 62.6, 71.5) and facility managers' or supervisors' promotion of information use (65.5%, 95% CI 60.9, 69.9) are positive. Over half of health workers (57.0%, 95% CI 52.2, 61.6) have a positive attitude toward data management, and the majority (85.8%, 95% CI 82.2, 88.9) believe they are competent of performing routine data analysis and interpretation activities. Only about two-thirds of health workers (65.5%, 95% CI 60.9, 69.9) were proficient in data analysis and interpretation. CONCLUSIONS: The use of routine health information was lower than the national target and data from other literatures. Unacceptably large number of health personnel did not use information. As a result, efforts should be made to increase health workers' data management knowledge and skills, as well as the organizational culture of data utilization. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12911-022-01881-y. |
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spelling | pubmed-91315212022-05-26 Health workers' use of routine health information and related factors at public health institutions in Illubabor Zone, Western Ethiopia Abdisa, Amanuel Benti Hajito, Kifle Woldemichael Daka, Dawit Wolde Ergiba, Meskerem Seboka Senay, Asaye Birhanu Abdi, Ketema Lemma Wordofa, Muluemebet Abera BMC Med Inform Decis Mak Research BACKGROUND: Proper utilization of health data has paramount importance for health service management. However, it is less practiced in developing countries, including Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to assess routine health information utilization and identify factors associated with it among health workers in the Illubabor zone, Western Ethiopia. METHODS: A facility based cross-sectional study was conducted from March to June 2021 with a total of 423 randomly selected health workers. Data were collected using an interviewer-administered questionnaire that was developed based on the performance of routine information system management (PRISM) framework. We created composite variables for health workers' knowledge, attitude, abilities, and information utilization based on existing data. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed and the statistical association between the outcome and independent variables was declared using 95% CI and a P < 0.05. RESULTS: About two-thirds or 279 health workers (66.0%, 95% CI 61.3, 70.4) had good health information utilization. Two-thirds of health workers think organizational decision-making culture (67.1%, 95% CI 62.6, 71.5) and facility managers' or supervisors' promotion of information use (65.5%, 95% CI 60.9, 69.9) are positive. Over half of health workers (57.0%, 95% CI 52.2, 61.6) have a positive attitude toward data management, and the majority (85.8%, 95% CI 82.2, 88.9) believe they are competent of performing routine data analysis and interpretation activities. Only about two-thirds of health workers (65.5%, 95% CI 60.9, 69.9) were proficient in data analysis and interpretation. CONCLUSIONS: The use of routine health information was lower than the national target and data from other literatures. Unacceptably large number of health personnel did not use information. As a result, efforts should be made to increase health workers' data management knowledge and skills, as well as the organizational culture of data utilization. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12911-022-01881-y. BioMed Central 2022-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9131521/ /pubmed/35610716 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-022-01881-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Abdisa, Amanuel Benti Hajito, Kifle Woldemichael Daka, Dawit Wolde Ergiba, Meskerem Seboka Senay, Asaye Birhanu Abdi, Ketema Lemma Wordofa, Muluemebet Abera Health workers' use of routine health information and related factors at public health institutions in Illubabor Zone, Western Ethiopia |
title | Health workers' use of routine health information and related factors at public health institutions in Illubabor Zone, Western Ethiopia |
title_full | Health workers' use of routine health information and related factors at public health institutions in Illubabor Zone, Western Ethiopia |
title_fullStr | Health workers' use of routine health information and related factors at public health institutions in Illubabor Zone, Western Ethiopia |
title_full_unstemmed | Health workers' use of routine health information and related factors at public health institutions in Illubabor Zone, Western Ethiopia |
title_short | Health workers' use of routine health information and related factors at public health institutions in Illubabor Zone, Western Ethiopia |
title_sort | health workers' use of routine health information and related factors at public health institutions in illubabor zone, western ethiopia |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9131521/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35610716 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-022-01881-y |
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