NCT03703622

Video-Debriefing for Improved Competence Among Skilled Birth Attendants in Lira District-Northern Uganda

The Effect of Standard Helping Babies Breathe Training With Video-debriefing on Health Workers Knowledge and Skills Attainment and Retention in Lira District Northern Uganda

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 96 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Makerere University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Helping babies breathe (HBB) is a neonatal resuscitation training program for low-resource settings to health care workers to provide prompt respiratory support to save babies at birth. Despite massive roll-out, new-born mortality reduction has stagnated over the years. Innovative teaching methods with existing technology such as video-debriefing needs to be tested to promote competence (skills and knowledge) attainment and retention.

Detailed description

In this study we will randomize both public and private delivery facilities in Lira district northern Uganda to receive either standard HBB with video-debriefing (intervention) or standard training alone (control). We hope video-debriefing will improve competence among the health workers and promote skills and knowledge retention over time, hence reduction in neonatal mortality. The result of the study may also contribute to shaping refresher training program policy in low-resource settings.

Conditions

• Neonatal Encephalopathy
• Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) Training

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Video-debriefing with standard HBB training compared with standard HBB training only	We will use the AAP training curriculum for the HBB 2nd edition through out the training and course assessments pre-and post- training and during follow-up period. Both intervention arms will a 2 days training consisting of: lectures, neonatal resuscitation demonstrations using NeoNatali mannequin, and practical skills s sessions. Pre- and post-tests knowledge (MCQs) and skills (bag mask ventilation, OSCE A, \& OSCE B) will be given to all participants. In the intervention arm, in addition to standard training, participants will work in teams of three (birth attendant, mother, and an assistant) to perform different HBB case scenarios. These will be filmed and used for subsequent debriefing after each case scenarios. After all participants in the intervention have had the opportunity to participate in the debriefing, then a post test is done to assess performance. Analysis is done to compare the intervention and control arms performances.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-04
• Primary completion: 2018-12-31
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2018-10-12
• Last updated: 2018-10-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Uganda