{"id":5303,"date":"2023-07-29T08:41:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T08:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2023-08-08T08:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T08:47:06","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2012-23-2-76-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2012-23-2-76-86\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2012) 23 (2) 76 \u2013 86"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Potentials of Community Pharmacists to Improve Maternal, Newborn and Child Health<\/b><\/p>

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‘Tomowo Faduyile*, Azuka C Oparah, Ibrahim A Oreagba<\/p>

West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists<\/p>

6 Taylor Drive, Medical Compound, Yaba, Lagos<\/p>

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*Corresponding author: ‘Tomowo Faduyile<\/p>

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Background: <\/b>With the high level of pregnancy, childbirth related and under-five deaths in Nigeria, achieving optimal maternal and child health has become the responsibility of all health personnel in a task <\/span>sharing approach at all levels of care.<\/span><\/p>

Objectives:<\/b> We assessed baseline status of community pharmacists’ involvement in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health [MNCH], described training intervention for community pharmacists on MNCH and <\/span>assessed its impact on maternal and child health.<\/span><\/p>

Methods:<\/b> Semi-experimental design, using multi-stage stratified sampling method was conducted in Abuja, Kwara, Abia and Edo States of Nigeria from June – September, 2011. Pre-tested questionnaires were <\/span>used to generate data on baseline activities of pharmacists. Two of the States were selected for training <\/span>intervention while the remaining two served as control. A post-training MNCH activity level of the study <\/span>and control settings was compared based on frequency of occurrence and Chi-Square analysis with the aid <\/span>of Epi Info package.<\/span><\/p>

Results:<\/b> Over 15% of community pharmacists reported seeing 5-10% women and 10-20% children daily. A gap in MNCH knowledge was observed. The training intervention improved MNCH knowledge in the study <\/span>States (P < 0.05), with post-training assessment showing a 40% average increase in the number of mothers <\/span>and under-five caregivers counselled on key MNCH interventions.<\/span><\/p>

Conclusion:<\/b> The baseline status of the community pharmacists’ participation in MNCH revealed a considerable client load of pregnant and nursing mothers with under 5 years children in contact with the <\/span>community pharmacists daily. Community pharmacists in MNCH interventions indicated a knowledge gap. <\/span>The training intervention showed knowledge transfer and improved community pharmacists’ position as <\/span>promoters, facilitators and implementers of maternal, newborn and child health in Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>

Key words:<\/b> Maternal, Child Health, Community Pharmacists, Nigeria.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Potentials of Community Pharmacists to Improve Maternal, Newborn and Child Health \u00a0 ‘Tomowo Faduyile*, Azuka C Oparah, Ibrahim A Oreagba West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists 6 Taylor Drive, Medical Compound, Yaba, Lagos \u00a0 *Corresponding author: ‘Tomowo Faduyile E mail: detomowo@yahoo.com; Phone: +234 809 355 7998 ABSTRACT Background: With the high level of pregnancy, childbirth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5309,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions\/5309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}