Essential Newborn Care Virtual Simulations for Skills Retention in Newborn Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Newborn mortality accounts for approximately 47% of all mortality of children under the age of 5 years. Virtual simulation may be a viable approach to support retention of essential newborn care knowledge and skills among health care professionals in low- and middle-income countries.

Objective

To evaluate the association between mobile virtual simulation using Virtual Essential Newborn Care (vENC) and knowledge and skills retention in early newborn care in low-resource settings and to propose a frequency of virtual simulation use for among health care professionals who care for newborns in low-resource settings.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study was conducted at 23 primary, secondary, and tertiary health care facilities in Lagos, Nigeria,

SUBMITTER: Umoren RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11843367 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature