Constraints to utilizing Pumani Bcpap treatment for respiratory distressed newborns in nursery wards from the perspective of nurses and clinicians at Chiradzulu District Hospital In Malawi
| dc.contributor.author | Kalembera Ngwala, Samuel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-22T11:09:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-12-22T11:09:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-10-12 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Type of research study This is a descriptive qualitative research study that aims to look at barriers and enablers of using Pumani bCPAP treatment, a perspective of clinicians and nurses. Focus Group Discussions and Semi-Structured Interviews shall be used to achieve this goal. Problem statement Neonatal mortality rate is still high and accounts for 45% of under-five deaths world-wide. Most of these deaths in developing countries are preventable if the right interventions are applied at the right time. It is against this background that WHO and UNICEF developed Every New-born Action Plan (ENAP) in 2014, to reduce newborn preventable deaths by 2030. In response to this, Malawi also developed its own context-based ENAP. One of the interventions adopted as part of the ENAP approach in Malawian hospitals is the use of low cost Pumani bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (bCPAP) to manage premature neonates presented with respiratory distress, which is one of the leading causes of neonatal deaths. However, there are many factors that influence usage of Pumani bCPAP, of which some are from the perspective of nurses and clinicians in the hospitals. Broad Objective To explore factors that influence usage of Pumani bCPAP from the perspective of clinicians and nurses in district hospitals of Malawi. Specific Objectives 1. Assess the knowledge of nurses and clinicians on Pumani bCPAP usage. 2. Identify enablers to Pumani bCPAP usage among nurses and clinicians. 3. Identify barriers to Pumani bCPAP usage among nurses and clinicians. Methodology A descriptive qualitative research will be conducted in the nursery ward at Chiradzulu district hospital. The sampling frame will be all nurses and clinicians working in the maternity department on full time basis. Interns and those on up-keep allowance will not be eligible for the study. The sample size for semi-structured interviews will include all those eligible for the study. Focus Group Discussions’ sample size will comprise 10 medical practitioners who work in the maternity department and they will be selected using purposive sampling. Data will be collected using recorders and note taking, during the Focus Group Discussions and Semi-Structured Interviews. The researcher will develop a spreadsheet and produce descriptive statistics in order to identify and quantify levels of knowledge of bCPAP usage amongst clinicians and nurses using the data generated from the Semi-Structured Interviews. Data from Focus Group Discussions will be transcribed verbatim and thematically analyzed using Nvivo version 12. Expected findings and their dissemination. The results will first be presented to the study participants to authenticate the findings. Then after that, they will be validated and a final report will be produced. The final report of the study and any published papers will be submitted to COMREC. The findings will also be disseminated to Rice 360 Institute for Global Health, different local and international research dissemination conferences and other relevant stakeholders. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://rscarchive.kuhes.ac.mw/handle/20.500.12988/811 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Kamuzu University of Health Sciences | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Protocol;P.04/20/3041 | |
| dc.title | Constraints to utilizing Pumani Bcpap treatment for respiratory distressed newborns in nursery wards from the perspective of nurses and clinicians at Chiradzulu District Hospital In Malawi | en_US |
| dc.type | Plan or blueprint | en_US |