A research report submitted to Faculty of Health Sciences in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Epidemiology in the field of Implementation Science, School of Public Health University of The Witwatersrand. Johannesburg June 2018. / Background
Intermittent Preventive Therapy using sulfadoxine pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) is a malaria control strategy to reduce cases of malaria in malaria endemic countries. However, the administration of the recommended three doses of IPTp throughout the stages of pregnancy still remains low in Nigeria even though, Nigeria is a malaria endemic country. Quality improvement approach has been demonstrated to improve practice among healthcare providers. This study therefore used a quality improvement approach to train and coach healthcare providers in order to improve the administration of the recommended doses of IPTp to pregnant women receiving antenatal care (ANC) services.
Methods
A quasi-experimental study design was carried out to evaluate the effect of quality improvement approach consisting of training and coaching of healthcare providers to improve the administration of IPTp during ANC service. Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) Samaru was purposively selected and twelve healthcare providers participated in the study. ANC daily register was reviewed pre-intervention, intervention and post-intervention period of the study. Data were analysed using line graphs and run charts.
Results
A total of 36 ANC visit weeks were observed between 21st November 2016 and 27th July 2017. The mean level for IPTp1 administration pre-intervention was 105.85% (SD: 29.28) and 75.20% (SD: 16.89) for IPTp2+. The levels of IPTp1 administration were relatively stable from Week 1 to Week 10 although, there was overestimation of IPTp1 as 8 of the 16 Weeks in the pre-intervention period i.e. Weeks 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15 and 16 all had more than 100% of eligible women administered IPTp1. The patterns of IPTp2+ administrations shows the levels of IPTp2+ administration were erratic. There was evidence indicating the process of IPTp1 was relatively stable post-intervention as the data crosses the median line only six times i.e. 7 runs. This indicates that the process of IPTp1 was within normal variation over the post-intervention period. There was an upward shift showing immediate improvement of the administration of IPTp2+ post-intervention although, there was a non-random variation in the administration of IPTp2+. The
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improvements of IPTp were not sustainable due to stock-outs. The quality of the ANC daily register was poor.
Conclusion
The integrated training and coaching intervention approach improved the administration of the recommended three doses of IPTp within the context of a PHC. These findings should be interpreted with caution as the impact of the intervention may not have reached its full impact due to the short post-intervention assessment. Stock-outs remains a huge barrier to the administration of IPTp under DOT during ANC services. The data quality of the ANC daily register improved post-intervention however, there were still slight errors thus, indicating that healthcare providers need constant coaching. It is important to integrate training and coaching of healthcare providers in order to have desired and sustained outcomes.
Keywords: Malaria in pregnancy, IPTp, IPTp-SP, SP, ANC, Pregnant women, Healthcare providers, administration, QI, integrated training and coaching. / LG2018
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/25381 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Nuhu, Simbiat Sophia |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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