연구성과

Objectives: The purpose of study was to evaluate the effects of maternal and child health capacity building training
programme for health workers on knowledge, attitude, practice, and confidence in Kwango, Democratic Republic of
Congo. Methods: Total participants were 369 health workers on 6 topics. 6 topics of maternal and child health care
training sessions were conducted to evaluate the changes in knowledge, attitude, practice, and confidence of health
workers through the questionnaires in pre-and post- training. Analysis were used in paired t-test, independent t-test
and ANOVA by SPSS 24.0. Results: Knowledge, attitude, practice, and confidence were significantly different between
pre-and post-training of health workers. In all training, knowledge, attitudes, practice and confidence score were
increased. According to the position, there were the positive change of score in pre-and post-training from A2 nurses
in essential newborn care, medical doctors in management of medicine and A3 nurses in emergency obstetric and
neonatal care. Conclusions: To provide the improved maternal and child healthcare service and raise the level of
maternal and child health in developing countries, the capacity building of health workers should be supported and
continued.