Knowledge, attitudes and practices of nurse-midwives related to obstetric care at Thaba-Tseka district in Lesotho

Muzeya, Fungai

dc.contributor.advisor	Lumadi, Thanyani Gladys
dc.contributor.author	Muzeya, Fungai
dc.date.accessioned	2015-11-03T12:31:53Z
dc.date.available	2015-11-03T12:31:53Z
dc.date.issued	2015-06
dc.date.submitted	2015-11-03
dc.identifier.citation	Muzeya, Fungai (2015) Knowledge, attitudes and practices of nurse-midwives related to obstetric care at Thaba-Tseka district in Lesotho, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19663>	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19663
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of the study was to describe the knowledge, attitudes and practices of nurse-midwives related to obstetric care at Thaba-Tseka, Lesotho. A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional research design was used. Data were collected using structured questionnaire from 45 nurse-midwives. The findings revealed that nurse-midwives had mean knowledge score of 10.5(80.7%) out of a possible 13(Standard Deviation (SD) 1.31) on obstetric care issues. However, the majority of nurse-midwives (n=28, 62.2%) did not have knowledge on the steps of the active management of third stage of labour according to the WHO. The mean scores on practice were 34.5(86.2%) against a possible 40(SD 5.43) for antenatal care, 39.2(89%) against a possible of 44(SD 4.66) and 22.4(93.3%) against a possible of 24(SD 2.18) for postnatal care. The study revealed that nurse-midwives had positive attitudes towards obstetric care practices with mean score for attitudes was 23.4(86.7%) against a possible score of 27(SD 3.02)	en
dc.format.extent	1 online resource (ix, 110 leaves,16 unnumbered leaves)
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Knowledge	en
dc.subject	Attitude	en
dc.subject	Practice	en
dc.subject	Obstetric care	en
dc.subject	Nurse-midwife	en
dc.subject	Antenatal care	en
dc.subject	Intrapartum care and postpartum care	en
dc.subject.ddc	618.20096885
dc.subject.lcsh	Midwives-- Lesotho -- Thaba-Tseka (District) -- Attitudes
dc.subject.lcsh	Maternity nursing -- Lesotho -- Thaba-Tseka (District)
dc.subject.lcsh	Prenatal care -- Lesotho -- Thaba-Tseka (District)
dc.subject.lcsh	Postnatal care -- Lesotho -- Thaba-Tseka (District)
dc.title	Knowledge, attitudes and practices of nurse-midwives related to obstetric care at Thaba-Tseka district in Lesotho	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
dc.description.department	Health Studies	en
dc.description.degree	M.A. (Public Health)