Knowledge and skills retention among frontline health workers: community maternal and newborn health training in rural Ethiopia.
- 1 January 2014
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
- Vol. 59 (s1)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jmwh.12146
Abstract
We examined the degree to which the skills and knowledge of health workers in Ethiopia were retained 18 months after initial maternal and newborn health training and sought to identify factors associated with 18-month skills assessment performance.Keywords
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