Evaluation oh health care workers adherence to focused antenatal care guideline in Magu district

A dissertation submitted to Mzumbe University as a partial fulfillment of requirement for the award of Degree of Masters in Health Monitoring and Evaluation of Mzumbe University

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Autor principal: Kalongoji, Samwel Isaac
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spelling oai:41.59.85.69:123456789-15852024-10-31T09:08:59Z Evaluation oh health care workers adherence to focused antenatal care guideline in Magu district Kalongoji, Samwel Isaac Health Care workers Antenatal care services (ANC) Maternal mortality ratio (MMR A dissertation submitted to Mzumbe University as a partial fulfillment of requirement for the award of Degree of Masters in Health Monitoring and Evaluation of Mzumbe University Globally, Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) reported to be declined, although is still high in sub-Saharan Africa. Antenatal care services (ANC) acknowledged to prevent detrimental outcomes for pregnant women and their babies through early identification of disorders like hypertensive, anaemia and malaria thus reducing mortality and morbidity. Maternal morbidity and mortality in Tanzania exist at unacceptably high levels. Maternal deaths, out of health facility and unskilled assisted deliveries existin the study area despite of long term FANC model guideline implementation, which is also geared to influence facility based deliveries, completion four ANC visits hence reducing maternal related complications and mortalities.The level of health workers knowledge,adherence and practice regarding FANC model guideline was not fully knownin the study area. The objectives study was to determine FANC model guideline knowledge; identify challenges; examine/explore the adherence level and determine healthcare workers’ perception. Study design was a cross sectional descriptive study adopted both qualitative and quantitative methods.Forty eight RCH department health care workers selected randomly, whereby10 were interviewed, recorded and transcription imported into Atlas.ti for coding, content analysis and themes were established. Thirty eight workers were observed by using a checklist. An Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) for quantitative data provided insights based on proportions regarding FANC model guideline parameters and participant’s demographic characteristics. Secondary data were analyzed by using Microsoft Excel. Findings indicate that the knowledge level in regards to FANC model guideline is high and majority of health care workers perceived it positively. Variation in adherence levels based on five FANC model guideline categories exist among health care workers observed of which majority (60%) were nurses(EN,RN).It is recommended that regular and intensive Reproductive and Child health focused supportive supervision at health facility levels is conducted to facilitate health care workers compliance of FANC model guideline. Private 2024-10-31T09:08:54Z 2024-10-31T09:08:54Z 2017 Thesis APA https://scholar.mzumbe.ac.tz/handle/123456789/1585 en application/pdf Mzumbe University
spellingShingle Health Care workers
Antenatal care services (ANC)
Maternal mortality ratio (MMR
Kalongoji, Samwel Isaac
Evaluation oh health care workers adherence to focused antenatal care guideline in Magu district
title Evaluation oh health care workers adherence to focused antenatal care guideline in Magu district
title_full Evaluation oh health care workers adherence to focused antenatal care guideline in Magu district
title_fullStr Evaluation oh health care workers adherence to focused antenatal care guideline in Magu district
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation oh health care workers adherence to focused antenatal care guideline in Magu district
title_short Evaluation oh health care workers adherence to focused antenatal care guideline in Magu district
title_sort evaluation oh health care workers adherence to focused antenatal care guideline in magu district
topic Health Care workers
Antenatal care services (ANC)
Maternal mortality ratio (MMR
url https://scholar.mzumbe.ac.tz/handle/123456789/1585
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