Translating new evidence into clinical practice: A quasi-experimental controlled before-after study evaluating the effect of a novel outreach mentoring approach on knowledge, attitudes and confidence of health workers providing HIV and infant feeding counselling in South Africa

dc.contributor.authorDoherty, Tanya M.
dc.contributor.authorGoga, Ameena Ebrahim
dc.contributor.authorManda, Samuel Om M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-05T09:08:32Z
dc.date.available2021-01-05T09:08:32Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractObjectives We report the effectiveness of a mentoring approach to improve health workers' (HWs') knowledge, attitudes and confidence with counselling on HIV and infant feeding. Design Quasi-experimental controlled before-after study. Setting Randomly selected primary healthcare clinics (n=24 intervention, n=12 comparison); two districts, South Africa. Participants All HWs providing infant feeding counselling in selected facilities were invited. Interventions Three 1-2 hours, on-site workshops over 3-6 weeks. Primary outcome measures Knowledge (22 binary questions), attitude (21 questions-5-point Likert Scale) and confidence (19 questions-3-point Likert Scale). Individual item responses were added within each of the attitude and confidence domains. The respective sums were taken to be the domain composite index and used as a dependent variable to evaluate intervention effect. Linear regression models were used to estimate the mean score difference between intervention and comparison groups postintervention, adjusting for the mean score difference between them at baseline.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDoherty, T. M. (2020). Translating new evidence into clinical practice: A quasi-experimental controlled before-after study evaluating the effect of a novel outreach mentoring approach on knowledge, attitudes and confidence of health workers providing HIV and infant feeding counselling in South Africa. BMJ Open, 10(10),e034770en_US
dc.identifier.issn2044-6055
dc.identifier.uri10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034770
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/5551
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBMJ Publishing Groupen_US
dc.subjectCommunity child healthen_US
dc.subjectHIV & AIDSen_US
dc.subjectPublic healthen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectHealth workersen_US
dc.titleTranslating new evidence into clinical practice: A quasi-experimental controlled before-after study evaluating the effect of a novel outreach mentoring approach on knowledge, attitudes and confidence of health workers providing HIV and infant feeding counselling in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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