Antenatal counseling in maternal and newborn care: Use of job aids to improve health worker performance and maternal understanding in Benin

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jennings, Larissa ^a,b   Yebadokpo, André S ^a   Affo, Jean ^a   Agbogbe, Marthe ^a  

^a University Research Co   (Benin)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIN; BIRTH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTERVIEW; JOB PERFORMANCE; KNOWLEDGE; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL PERIOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TRAINING; WORK; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MATERNAL WELFARE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; BENIN; COMMUNICATION; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 78549263764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-10-75     Document Type: Article

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