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标题：A study on the acceptance and practice of focused antenatal care by healthcare providers in The South-West Zone of Nigeria.
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作者：Ademola M AMOSU ; Adenike M DEGUN ; Adebo M THOMAS 等
期刊名称：Archives of Applied Science Research
印刷版ISSN：0975-508X
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：75-82
语种：English
出版社：Scholars Research Library
摘要：This is a study on the acceptance and practices of focused antenatal care by healthcare providers in fivepublic hospitals the south-west zone of Nigeria. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive and integratedsystem of reproductive health care that offers an integrated set of services and within a four visit model.This research focused primarily on the knowledge of the health care providers including nurses anddoctors, on the new World Health Organisation (WHO) initiative, and aimed to determine how the healthworkers can enhance its practice. Of the six hundred validated semi-structured questionnairesadministered in this cross-sectional study 500 were found usable for data analysis. Analysis was carriedout using descriptive statistics. The result showed that 42% of the respondents considered frequentroutine as the norm and that women should be classified by risk category, 52% identified ignorance asone of the factors affecting focused antenatal care. Furthermore, 66% accepted that focused antenatalcare is not enforced by their healthcare facility as a result of lack of policy concerning the practice offocused antenatal care. Only 6% of the respondents disagreed that early detection and prevention ofdiseases are a major component of focused antenatal care. It was observed that establishing link betweenthe community and the facility in order to increase utilization of the services offered by the new WHOpackage can enhance its practice. In addition, proper supervision by a skilled, trained healthcareprovider will also be effective in enhancing its practice. The package is accepted by the health careworkers but not practiced.