Midwifery care providers' childbirth and immediate newborn care competencies: A cross-sectional study in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.

ABSTRACT: Evidence-based quality care is essential for reducing sub-Saharan Africa's high burden of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity. Provision of quality care results from interaction between several components of the health system including competent midwifery care providers and the working environment. We assessed midwifery care providers' ability to provide quality intrapartum and newborn care and selected aspects of the working environment as part of the Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce perinatal morTality and morbidity (ALERT) project in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda. We used a self-administered questionnaire to assess provider knowledge and their working environment and skills drills simulations to assess skills and behaviours. All midwifery care providers including doct

SUBMITTER: Moller AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10243614 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature