Study of Health Care Providers’ Practice After Apply the Educational Program with Related to Neonatal Sepsis in Al-Hilla City
Ali Hussein Hassab, Kahtan Hadi HusseinAbstract
Background:
Sepsis is one of the most common causes for admission to neonatal care units at developing countries, consider reason of mortality and morbidity in developed and developing countries.
Objectives:
To evaluate the level of practice of health care providers and to determine the effectiveness of education program about sepsis through follow-up process for two months after program implementation.
Materials and Methods:
Quasiexperimental study designed to assess the practice of health care providers, Anon probability (purposive) sample composed of (56) health care providers (28 for control group and 28 for study group), for the period from March 10, 2023, to March 15, 2024.
Results:
Results of pretest estimated that most nurses have moderate level of practice in the control and study groups where their percent were (60.7%), (57.1%) in the control and study groups, respectively, results of post one estimated that 60.7% of health care providers in control group have moderate level of practice and (64.3%) of health care providers had a good level of practice in study group after apply the educational program. Finally results of post two estimated that (60.7%) of nurses had moderate level of practice in control group, while (60.7%) of nurses have an adequate level of practice in study group after two months of apply the educational program.
Conclusions:
The most of health care providers have moderate level of practice before apply the educational program. The results of posttest estimated that the level of practice change to good level after apply the program.