Assessing knowledge and skills of maternity care professionals regarding neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia: a nationwide survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia is a physiologic phenomenon, but, when severe, may cause lifelong disability. Maternity care assistants (MCAs) play an important role in timely recognition of severe neonatal jaundice. We assessed knowledge and skills of MCAs regarding neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia.

Methods

All Dutch MCAs (n = 9065) were invited to fill out a questionnaire assessing knowledge, expertise, and handling of neonatal jaundice. Additionally, we developed an e-learning and provided training sessions to a subgroup of MCAs (n = 99), and assessed their knowledge on neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia before and after the training.

Results

One thousand four hundred sixty-five unique online questionnaires were completed (response 16.2%). The median number of correc

SUBMITTER: van der Geest BAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7814718 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature