DETERMINATION OF MIDWIVES AND NURSES' KNOWLEDGE LEVEL WHO WERE GIVEN PARTOGRAPH TRAINING

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study is to assess midwives and nurses' knowledge and skills of the partograph before and after the training. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Balikesir in Turkey. This study was 45 midwifes and nurses who were given partograph training. A scale measuring the partograph knowledge before and after the training was administered and participants were asked to mark on the partograph by giving a case sample to measure skills of using partograph. The questions prepared to measure knowledge of the partograph were multi-item propositions. Correct answers to the partograph knowledge questions were scored "2", missing answers were scored "1" and wrong answers or unanswered questions were scored "0". Results: Partograph knowledge score averages were meaningfully higher in midwives and nurses who worked in obstetrics clinics, who used partograph and who received partograph training previously (p<0.05). Partograph recording skill score averages were meaningfully higher in midwives and nurses who worked less than 10 years, who had university education, who used partograph previously, and who received partograph training (p<0.05). Post-training score average of total knowledge was meaningfully higher (p<0.0001). Conclusions: There was a meaningful increase in knowledge and skill score averages in midwives and nurses after the training. Since use of current partograph is a new thing, knowledge of midwives and nurses in working obstetrics clinics should be updated and deficiencies should be made up.