Perspectives of healthcare workers on integrated management of childhood illness in Pakistan: A phenomenological approach
المؤلف | Abrar, Saidul |
المؤلف | Hafeez, Asad |
المؤلف | Khan, Muhammad Naseem |
المؤلف | Marwat, Muhammad Imran |
تاريخ الإتاحة | 2024-06-11T10:56:56Z |
تاريخ النشر | 2024-03-07 |
اسم المنشور | Journal of Child Health Care |
المعرّف | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13674935241238474 |
الاقتباس | Abrar, S., Hafeez, A., Khan, M. N., & Marwat, M. I. (2024). Perspectives of healthcare workers on integrated management of childhood illness in Pakistan: A phenomenological approach. Journal of Child Health Care, 13674935241238474. |
الرقم المعياري الدولي للكتاب | 1367-4935 |
الملخص | In 2019, an estimated 5.2 million deaths were reported among children less than 5 years of age. At primary healthcare level, healthcare workers (HCWs) mostly rely on history and clinical findings and less on inadequate diagnostic facilities. To enhance case management skills of HCWs, World Health Organization devised an integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI) strategy in 1995, modified to distance learning IMCI in 2014. A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted to explore perceptions of HCWs about standard and distance IMCI. Four focus group discussions were conducted with purposively selected 26 HCWs (IMCI trained) from 26 basic health units of Abbottabad district in Pakistan. Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics were adopted during the inductive thematic analysis. Five themes that emerged are inexorable health seeking behaviors, IMCI being a comprehensive algorithm for consultation, a tedious protocol, scaling up protocol to specialists and private practitioners, and administrative insufficiency by the department of health. Improvement in case management skills of HCWs was reported as a result of IMCI trainings. It needs administrative support, regulations to control poly-pharmacy and provision of drugs without prescription, and a curb on political and bureaucratic interference. |
اللغة | en |
الناشر | SAGE |
الموضوع | Child health health facilities healthcare worker hermeneutics in-service training Pakistan |
النوع | Article |
ESSN | 1741-2889 |
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