Effectiveness of Ng’adakarin Bamocha model in improving access to ante-natal and delivery services among nomadic pastoralist communities of Turkana West and Turkana North Sub-Counties of Kenya

Introduction: Access to maternal and child health care services among the nomadic pastoralists community in Kenya and African continent in general is unacceptably low. In Turkana, only 18.1% of the women had seen a nurse or a midwife for antenatal care during pregnancy while only 1.3% of pregnant...

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Main Authors: Jillo, Ali Jillo, Ofware, Peter Obonyo, Njuguna, Susan, Mwaura-Tenambergen, Wanja
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author Jillo, Ali Jillo
Ofware, Peter Obonyo
Njuguna, Susan
Mwaura-Tenambergen, Wanja
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Ofware, Peter Obonyo
Njuguna, Susan
Mwaura-Tenambergen, Wanja
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description Introduction: Access to maternal and child health care services among the nomadic pastoralists community in Kenya and African continent in general is unacceptably low. In Turkana, only 18.1% of the women had seen a nurse or a midwife for antenatal care during pregnancy while only 1.3% of pregnant women reported delivery at health facilities in 2005. Ng’adakarin BAMOCHA model, based on migratory routes of the Turkana pastoralists and container clinics was adopted in 2007 to improve access to maternal and child health services by the nomads. Methods: A crosssectional study design was used to establish the effectiveness of Ng’adakarin BAMOCHA model on accessibility and uptake of ante-natal care and delivery services. A total of 360 households and 400 households were interviewed for pre-intervention and post-intervention respectively. The study compared the pre-intervention and post-intervention findings. Structured questionnaires and focus group discussion were used for data collection. Results: There was no improvement in the fourth ante-natal care visits between pre-intervention and post-intervention groups at 119(51.5%) and 111(41.9%) respectively (p<0.05). Knowledge of the community on the importance of ANC visits improved from 60%-72% with significance level of p<0.05. There was a significant increase 6%-17% of deliveries under a skilled health worker (p<0.05). TBA assisted deliveries increased from 7.5%- 20.2% with a p<0.05.There was significant reduction in home deliveries from 89.5%-79.5% with a p<0.05. Conclusion: The Ng’adakarin Bamocha model had a positive effect on the improving maternal health care among the nomadic pastoralist community in Turkana.
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spelling ir-123456789-29662024-02-21T16:26:01Z Effectiveness of Ng’adakarin Bamocha model in improving access to ante-natal and delivery services among nomadic pastoralist communities of Turkana West and Turkana North Sub-Counties of Kenya Jillo, Ali Jillo Ofware, Peter Obonyo Njuguna, Susan Mwaura-Tenambergen, Wanja Turkana Ng´adakarin Bamocha Nomads Pastoralist Skilled delivery services Health facility delivery Traditional birth attendants Container clinics Introduction: Access to maternal and child health care services among the nomadic pastoralists community in Kenya and African continent in general is unacceptably low. In Turkana, only 18.1% of the women had seen a nurse or a midwife for antenatal care during pregnancy while only 1.3% of pregnant women reported delivery at health facilities in 2005. Ng’adakarin BAMOCHA model, based on migratory routes of the Turkana pastoralists and container clinics was adopted in 2007 to improve access to maternal and child health services by the nomads. Methods: A crosssectional study design was used to establish the effectiveness of Ng’adakarin BAMOCHA model on accessibility and uptake of ante-natal care and delivery services. A total of 360 households and 400 households were interviewed for pre-intervention and post-intervention respectively. The study compared the pre-intervention and post-intervention findings. Structured questionnaires and focus group discussion were used for data collection. Results: There was no improvement in the fourth ante-natal care visits between pre-intervention and post-intervention groups at 119(51.5%) and 111(41.9%) respectively (p<0.05). Knowledge of the community on the importance of ANC visits improved from 60%-72% with significance level of p<0.05. There was a significant increase 6%-17% of deliveries under a skilled health worker (p<0.05). TBA assisted deliveries increased from 7.5%- 20.2% with a p<0.05.There was significant reduction in home deliveries from 89.5%-79.5% with a p<0.05. Conclusion: The Ng’adakarin Bamocha model had a positive effect on the improving maternal health care among the nomadic pastoralist community in Turkana. 2019-09-06T09:30:20Z 2019-09-06T09:30:20Z 2015-04-23 Article Effectiveness of Ng’adakarin Bamocha model in improving access to ante-natal and delivery services among nomadic pastoralist communities of Turkana West and Turkana North Sub-Counties of Kenya.Jillo, Ali Jillo (et..al)Pan African Medical Journal,2015 3 doi:10.11604/pamj.2015.20.403.4896 https://repository.daystar.ac.ke/handle/123456789/2966 en application/pdf Pan African Medical Journal
spellingShingle Turkana
Ng´adakarin Bamocha
Nomads
Pastoralist
Skilled delivery services
Health facility delivery
Traditional birth attendants
Container clinics
Jillo, Ali Jillo
Ofware, Peter Obonyo
Njuguna, Susan
Mwaura-Tenambergen, Wanja
Effectiveness of Ng’adakarin Bamocha model in improving access to ante-natal and delivery services among nomadic pastoralist communities of Turkana West and Turkana North Sub-Counties of Kenya
title Effectiveness of Ng’adakarin Bamocha model in improving access to ante-natal and delivery services among nomadic pastoralist communities of Turkana West and Turkana North Sub-Counties of Kenya
title_full Effectiveness of Ng’adakarin Bamocha model in improving access to ante-natal and delivery services among nomadic pastoralist communities of Turkana West and Turkana North Sub-Counties of Kenya
title_fullStr Effectiveness of Ng’adakarin Bamocha model in improving access to ante-natal and delivery services among nomadic pastoralist communities of Turkana West and Turkana North Sub-Counties of Kenya
title_full_unstemmed Effectiveness of Ng’adakarin Bamocha model in improving access to ante-natal and delivery services among nomadic pastoralist communities of Turkana West and Turkana North Sub-Counties of Kenya
title_short Effectiveness of Ng’adakarin Bamocha model in improving access to ante-natal and delivery services among nomadic pastoralist communities of Turkana West and Turkana North Sub-Counties of Kenya
title_sort effectiveness of ng’adakarin bamocha model in improving access to ante-natal and delivery services among nomadic pastoralist communities of turkana west and turkana north sub-counties of kenya
topic Turkana
Ng´adakarin Bamocha
Nomads
Pastoralist
Skilled delivery services
Health facility delivery
Traditional birth attendants
Container clinics
url https://repository.daystar.ac.ke/handle/123456789/2966
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