Effectiveness of clinical training on improving essential newborn care practices in Bossaso, Somalia: a pre and postintervention study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasingly, neonatal mortality is concentrated in settings of conflict and political instability. To promote evidence-based practices, an interagency collaboration developed the Newborn Health in Humanitarian Settings: Field Guide. The essential newborn care component of the Field Guide was operationalized with the use of an intervention package encompassing the training of health workers, newborn kit provisions and the installation of a newborn register.

Methods

We conducted a quasi-experimental prepost study to test the effectiveness of the intervention package on the composite outcome of essential newborn care from August 2016 to December 2018 in Bossaso, Somalia. Data from the observation of essential newborn care practices, evaluation of providers' knowledg

SUBMITTER: Amsalu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7222459 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature