Knowledge and skills retention among frontline health workers: Community maternal and newborn health training in rural Ethiopia

Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health

Volumn 59, Issue SUPPL1, 2014, Pages

  Gobezayehu, Abebe Gebremariam ^a   Mohammed, Hajira ^b   Dynes, Michelle M ^c   Desta, Binyam Fekadu ^b   Barry, Danika ^c   Aklilu, Yeshiwork ^b   Tessema, Hanna ^b   Tadesse, Lelissie ^b   Mikulich, Meridith ^c   Buffington, Sandra Tebben ^c   Sibley, Lynn M ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JSI RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community maternal and newborn health training; Ethiopia; Frontline worker; Knowledge and skill retention

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL; OXYTOCIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG STORAGE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEWBORN CARE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RURAL AREA; ADULT; AGE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH SERVICE; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEARNING; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFERY; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894091823     PISSN: 15269523     EISSN: 15422011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jmwh.12146     Document Type: Article

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