Usability and Feasibility of an Innovative mLearning Approach for Nurses Providing Option B+ Services in Manica and Sofala Provinces, Mozambique
| Autor: | Georgina De Castro, Justina Zucule, Sarah Gimbel, Florencia Floriano, João Luis Manuel, Jane Kim, Falume Chale, Celso Inguane, Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir, Kenneth Sherr |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Rural Population Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Inservice Training Urban Population Anti-HIV Agents Health Personnel MEDLINE Nurses HIV Infections Article 03 medical and health sciences Maternal child health 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Pregnancy Antiretroviral Therapy Highly Active Intervention (counseling) Humans Learning Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Pregnancy Complications Infectious Mozambique Advanced and Specialized Nursing 030505 public health business.industry Usability Mobile Applications Antiretroviral therapy Infectious Disease Transmission Vertical Test (assessment) Workforce Female Clinical Competence 0305 other medical science business Cell Phone Clinical skills |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. 31:3-11 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6917 1055-3290 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/jnc.0000000000000154 |
| Popis: | The scaling of Option B+ services, whereby all pregnant women who test HIV positive are started on lifelong antiretroviral therapy upon diagnosis regardless of CD4 T-cell count, is ongoing in many high HIV burden, low-resource countries. We developed and evaluated a tablet-based mobile learning (mLearning) training approach to build Option B+ competencies in frontline nurses in central Mozambique. Its acceptability and impact on clinical skills were assessed in maternal child health nurses and managers at 20 intervention and 10 control clinics. Results show that skill and knowledge of nurses at intervention clinics improved threefold compared with control clinics (p = .04), nurse managers at intervention clinics demonstrated a 9- to 10-fold improvement, and nurses reported strong acceptance of this approach. “mLearning” is one viable modality to enhance nurses’ clinical competencies in areas with limited health workforce and training budgets. This study’s findings may guide future scaling and investments in commercially viable mLearning solutions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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