The Impact of Introducing Midwives and also Mentoring on the Quality of Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Adolescent Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Integrative Review Protocol
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Background
1.2. Objectives
1.3. Rationale
2. Methods
2.1. Study Design
2.2. Eligibility Criteria
- Population: Midwives, maternity staff (nurses, paramedics), health managers, patients receiving care
- Intervention: Midwifery-led interventions with mentorship on the quality of maternal and newborn healthcare
- Comparison: Effective vs. ineffective for health system strengthening and quality and availability of services
- Outcome: Operationalisation of evidence-based maternal health care within health systems, improved health outcomes including health and well-being of women and newborns, experiences of midwives, facility staff, and managers regarding deploying midwives, and improvements in care quality.
Key Concepts | Search Terms |
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Midwives/midwifery | Delivery, Obstetric; maternal health services; midwife * or midwiv *; maternal; skilled birth attendan * |
Enabling environment | Enabling environment; supportive environment; mentoring; mentor; supervis * |
Care quality/care improvement | Quality of health care; quality improvement; care quality; outcome; quality improvement; healthcare |
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) | All countries will be included as per World Bank’s definition |
2.3. Exclusion Criteria
- (i)
- articles or reports published before 2010;
- (ii)
- national surveys published between 2010 and March 2023;
- (iii)
- studies that do not provide any impact or outcome;
- (iv)
- articles that are not available in full text; or
- (v)
- articles that are not accessible after contacting the corresponding author.
2.4. Study Selection/Type of Study to Be Included
2.5. Search Strategy
2.6. Information Sources
2.7. Data Extraction (Study Selection and Coding)
Operational Definition
2.8. Data Analysis and Presentation
2.9. Quality Assessment
3. Expected Results
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Dimension | Description of Review |
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| A generic non-review-specific judgment of the coherence and relevance on its own terms, using the generally accepted criteria for this type of evidence. |
| A review-specific judgment about the fitness for purpose of the evidence for answering the question. |
| A review-specific judgment about the relevance of the focus of the evidence for the question. This could include issues of propriety in how the research was conducted, which could impact its inclusion and interpretation. |
| The three above judgments are then combined to give an overall assessment. |
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Anderson, R.; Zaman, S.B.; Limmer, M. The Impact of Introducing Midwives and also Mentoring on the Quality of Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Adolescent Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Integrative Review Protocol. Methods Protoc. 2023, 6, 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/mps6030048
Anderson R, Zaman SB, Limmer M. The Impact of Introducing Midwives and also Mentoring on the Quality of Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Adolescent Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Integrative Review Protocol. Methods and Protocols. 2023; 6(3):48. https://doi.org/10.3390/mps6030048
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnderson, Rondi, Sojib Bin Zaman, and Mark Limmer. 2023. "The Impact of Introducing Midwives and also Mentoring on the Quality of Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Adolescent Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Integrative Review Protocol" Methods and Protocols 6, no. 3: 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/mps6030048