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Table 4 Maternity unit workers' exposure to skills/training toward ensuring "safe motherhood"

From: New paradigm old thinking: the case for emergency obstetric care in the prevention of maternal mortality in Nigeria

Safe Motherhood skills/training that maternity staff are exposed to

Doctors (n = 21)

Freq (%)

Nurses (n = 57)

Freq (%)

*CHEWs (n = 74)

Freq (%)

Total (n = 152)

Freq (%)

Awareness of *LSS training

18 (85.7)

22 (38.6)

4 (5.4)

44 (28.9)

Knowledge of competencies that the LSS training confers on trainees

    

   - Good knowledge

6 (28.6)

1 (1.7)

0 (0)

7 (4.6)

   -Poor knowledge

14 (66.7)

54 (94.7)

74 (100)

142 (93.4)

Number of staff trained in LSS

7 (33.3)

6 (10.5)

1 (1.3)

14 (9.2)

Attendance of staff at other trainings for upgrading of skills in safe motherhood

    

   -Never

16 (76.2)

51 (89.5)

65 (87.8)

132 (86.8)

   - In the last 1 year

1 (4.8)

2 (3.5)

3 (4.05)

6 (3.9)

   - In the last 2-5 years

4 (19.0)

4 (7.0)

6 (8.11)

14 (9.2)

  1. *CHEWs = Community Health Extension Workers
  2. **LSS = Lifesaving skills