Practices of Skilled Birth Attendants about AMTSL in Prevention of Post-Partum Haemorrhage: Cross-sectional Study

Abstract

Aim: To assess the practices of SBAs about AMTSL working in labour room at tertiary level of care in-order to minimize the accidence of PPH. Study Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study. Methodology: This study with enrolled SBAs (n=120) was done following ethical review committee’s (ERC) approval at Government tertiary care hospitals of the Lahore-Pakistan. For data collection a WHO standardized check list as a questionnaire was used to assess the practices of SBAs. Results: Results showed that there were gaps in competencies of SBAs about AMTSL working in labour room. Most of the steps that are S1, S3, S4, S8, S12, S13, S14 and S15 were not done by the majority of the SBA working in labour room. Almost 12 (10%) out of 120 SBAs just got 60% and above marks, 100 (83.3%) out of 120 got marks between40 to 59% and only 8 (6.7%) got less than 40% marks. Conclusion: We concluded that SBAs had unsatisfactory knowledge about standardized check list of AMTSL by WHO and their practices were not according to standard. Keywords: Skilled Birth Attendants, Labour Stages, Post-partum Haemorrhage and Practices.