Assessing the effectiveness of a sexual and reproductive health and rights training programme in changing healthcare practitioners' attitudes and practices in low-income countries.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In low-income countries the utilisation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services is influenced by healthcare practitioners' knowledge, attitudes and practices. Despite awareness of the potential problems due to ingrained biases and prejudices, few approaches have been effective in changing practitioners' knowledge, attitudes and practices concerning SRHR in low-income countries.

Objectives

1) To assess whether participating in an SRHR international training programme (ITP) changed healthcare practitioners' SRHR knowledge, SRHR attitudes and SRHR practices and 2) examine associations between trainees' characteristics, their SRHR work environment and transfer of training.

Methods

A pre- and post-intervention study, involving 107 t

SUBMITTER: Tumwine G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10353321 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature