Knowledge of Health Providers in Salahiddin towards Integrated anagement of Neonate & Child Health in Year 2014

Abstract

This study aims at reducing morbidity and mortality among children under-five years by assessing the Knowledge of health providers towards Integrated Management of Neonate& Child Health strategy in PHCCs of Salahiddin Governorate after one year of implementation.
This was comparative cross-sectional study conducted from January, 12th to May, 29th, 2014. Data was collected from 84 health providers (42 trained and 42 non-trained) who are working in 20 Primary Health Care Centers (PHCCs); 7 of them were in Tikrit (Salahiddin's Capital) and the remaining 13 PHCCs were in the other districts of SA (Tooz, Beji, Dor, Samarra, Balad and Dijel), the aim is to assess knowledge, attitude and practice of those workers (HPs) towards Integrated Management of Neonate and Child Health (IMNCH).
The mean age of total respondents was (33.18 + 5.82Years) and more than half 44(52.4%) of them lies in age group of 30-39 Years old. The vast majority (75%) of participants,63, were females compared to 21(25.0%) of them who were males. More than two third (69.0%) of participants were paramedical, 58, compared to 26(31.0%) of them who were doctors. More than one third (41.7%) of participants,35, spent 5-10 years in their position compared to 27(32.1%) of them who spent less than five years and 22(26.2%) of them who spent more than ten years in their position. Healthcare providers had mean score of (73.10 $ 11.53) for knowledge. Results of this study revealed that the trained healthcare provides had statistically significantly higher knowledge (76.88 +- 12.99) compared to non- trained healthcare providers (69.29 +- 16.60 Other findings of this study showed that the trained medical staff had statistically significantly higher knowledge (89.77 + 4.53) compared to trained  aramedical staff (71.10 11.25)
Furthermore, this study found that the trained healthcare providers from Tikrit city had statistically significantly higher knowledge (85.05 +- 6.60) compared trained healthcare providers from districts (70.13 +- 13.17 This study demonstrated that there was a significant difference in knowledge, attitude and practice in IMNCH among the trained and non-trained health providers and between those from different districts and between the doctors and other paramedical staff.