Adherence to evidence based care practices for childbirth before and after a quality improvement intervention in health facilities of Rajasthan, India

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Sharad Iyengar⁴  Indrani Parker⁴  Rajesh Dattatreya⁴  Paramsukh Saini⁴  William Liu¹  Kalpana Dashora⁴  Sunil Thomas²  Motilal Jain³  Kirti Iyengar⁴ 

[1] Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA;United Nations Population Fund, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India;State Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India;Action Research & Training for Health, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

关键词: Institutional delivery;    Perinatal mortality;    Maternal care;    Rajasthan;    Evidence based delivery care;    Intrapartum;    Quality of care;    Childbirth;   

Others  :  1125675
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2393-14-270

 received in 2013-12-14, accepted in 2014-07-19,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

After the launch of Janani Suraksha Yojana, a conditional cash transfer scheme in India, the proportion of women giving birth in institutions has rapidly increased. However, there are important gaps in quality of childbirth services during institutional deliveries. The aim of this intervention was to improve the quality of childbirth services in selected high caseload public health facilities of 10 districts of Rajasthan. This intervention titled “Parijaat” was designed by Action Research & Training for Health, in partnership with the state government and United Nations Population Fund.

Methods

The intervention was carried out in 44 public health facilities in 10 districts of Rajasthan, India. These included district hospitals (9), community health centres (32) and primary health centres (3). The main intervention was orientation training of doctors and program managers and regular visits to facilities involving assessment, feedback, training and action. The adherence to evidence based practices before, during and after this intervention were measured using structured checklists and scoring sheets. Main outcome measures included changes in practices during labour, delivery or immediate postpartum period.

Results

Use of several unnecessary or harmful practices reduced significantly. Most importantly, proportion of facilities using routine augmentation of labour reduced (p = 0), episiotomy for primigravidas (p = 0.0003), fundal pressure (p = 0.0003), and routine suction of newborns (0 = 0.0005). Among the beneficial practices, use of oxytocin after delivery increased (p = 0.0001) and the practice of listening foetal heart sounds during labour (p = 0.0001). Some practices did not show any improvements, such as dorsal position for delivery, use of partograph, and hand-washing.

Conclusions

An intervention based on repeated facility visits combined with actions at the level of decision makers can lead to substantial improvements in quality of childbirth practices at health facilities.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Iyengar et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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