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KMID : 0858820190360040043
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
2019 Volume.36 No. 4 p.43 ~ p.53
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Effect of maternal and child health capacity building training programs for health workers on maternal and child health knowledge, attitudes, practice and confidence in Kwango district, DR Congo
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Shin Dong-Eun
So Ae-Young
Kim Yeon-Hee
Nam Eun-Woo
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of study was to evaluate the effects of maternal and child health capacity building training programme for health workers on knowledge, attitude, practice, and confidence in Kwango, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Methods: Total participants were 369 health workers on 6 topics. 6 topics of maternal and child health care training sessions were conducted to evaluate the changes in knowledge, attitude, practice, and confidence of health workers through the questionnaires in pre-and post- training. Analysis were used in paired t-test, independent t-test and ANOVA by SPSS 24.0.
Results: Knowledge, attitude, practice, and confidence were significantly different between pre-and post-training of health workers. In all training, knowledge, attitudes, practice and confidence score were increased. According to the position, there were the positive change of score in pre-and post-training from A2 nurses in essential newborn care, medical doctors in management of medicine and A3 nurses in emergency obstetric and neonatal care.
Conclusions: To provide the improved maternal and child healthcare service and raise the level of maternal and child health in developing countries, the capacity building of health workers should be supported and continued.
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KEYWORD
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capacity building, knowledge, attitude, education
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