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A Rapid Assessment Tool for affirming good practice in midwifery education programming
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OBJECTIVE: to design a criterion-referenced assessment tool that could be used globally in a rapid assessment of good practices and bottlenecks in midwifery education programs. DESIGN: a standard tool development process was followed, to generate standards and reference criteria; followed by external review and field testing to document psychometric properties. SETTING: review of standards and scoring criteria were conducted by stakeholders around the globe. Field testing of the tool was conducted in Myanmar. PARTICIPANTS: eleven of Myanmar׳s 22 midwifery education programs participated in the assessment. FINDINGS: the clinimetric tool was demonstrated to have content validity and high inter-rater reliability in use. KEY CONCLUSIONS: a globally validated tool, and accompanying user guide and handbook are now available for conducting rapid assessments of compliance with good practice criteria in midwifery education programming.
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Solutions to post-conflict delivery of BEmONC are contextual and more likely to be successful in NGO run facilities and with inter-country collaboration to increase SBA capacity.
“As highlighted by others, solutions to post-conflict delivery of BEmONC are contextual and more likely to be successful in NGO run facilities [48, 49] and with inter-country collaboration to increase SBA capacity [14, 50].”
From Accelerated Training of Skilled Birth Attendants in a Marginalized Population on the Thai-Myanmar Border: A Multiple Methods Program Evaluation (2016) · cites this paper as [14]
The Aim of the study describes support for midwifery schools to improve teaching and competency-based learning, which is relevant to increasing skilled birth attendant capacity. The Discussion describes a tool used in several countries, but neither passage says that inter-country collaboration increases that capacity, particularly for post-conflict BEmONC delivery. The NGO-run-facilities clause is attached to other citations, not this source. (LLM, conf=0.78)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredExperience in this and other resource poor settings has shown that to achieve quality SBA or midwifery workforce training, collaboration with higher income countries to fund and share expertise was valuable.
“Experience in this and other resource poor settings has shown that to achieve quality SBA or midwifery workforce training, collaboration with higher income countries to fund and share expertise was valuable [14, 50].”
From Accelerated Training of Skilled Birth Attendants in a Marginalized Population on the Thai-Myanmar Border: A Multiple Methods Program Evaluation (2016) · cites this paper as [14]
The Aim of the study (page unavailable) describes a US-based organisation providing expertise and direct support to improve midwifery education. Findings from the field test (page unavailable) says donor efforts support high-quality education in Myanmar. The paper does not establish that higher-income countries funded this training, or that such collaboration was shown to be valuable across other resource-poor settings. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredA secondary limitation is lack of an analysis of cost effectiveness of the program.
“A secondary limitation is lack of an analysis of cost effectiveness of the program [14].”
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The Conclusion’s Table 2 lists limitations of the Rapid Assessment Tool, but does not identify a lack of cost-effectiveness analysis. A search for cost-effectiveness and economic evaluation found no passage addressing that proposed limitation; the cost-effectiveness reference is to another study. (LLM, conf=0.72)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fullerton, J. T., Johnson, P., Lobe, E., Myint, K. H., Aung, N. N., Moe, T., & Linn, N. A.
- Affiliations
- Jhpiego (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fullerton, Judith T.
- Venue
- Midwifery
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-03
- Volume
- 34
- Pages
- 36-41
- ISSN
- 0266-6138 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2277552300
- Cited by
- 22
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 7.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Midwifery (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- government and the participation of midwifery education programs
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Research and Theory › Health Education and Validation
- Social Sciences › Education › Innovations in Medical Education
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health and Medical Education
- Keywords
- midwifery education, rapid assessment tool, criterion-referenced assessment, clinimetric properties, content validity, inter-rater reliability, educational program evaluation
- MeSH terms
- Myanmar, Competency-Based Education, Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate, Female, Humans, Midwifery, Schools, Nursing, Reproducibility of Results, Program Evaluation, Focus Groups, Practice Patterns, Nurses', Checklist
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