Introduction: cervical cancer is common with high mortality. It is diagnosed late in developing countries. Reducing mortality requires better knowledge and screening for cervical cancer. Objective: To study the knowle...Introduction: cervical cancer is common with high mortality. It is diagnosed late in developing countries. Reducing mortality requires better knowledge and screening for cervical cancer. Objective: To study the knowledge, attitudes and practices of midwives in the Kara region of cervical cancer screening. Methods: Cross-sectional, descriptive study from January 2020 to June 2020 conducted with midwives from the Kara region. Results: Fifty midwives participated in the study. The average age was 32.46 years and the majority (92%) had less than 10 years work experience. Thirty seven (74%) said that cervical cancer was due to human papillomavirus oncogenes and 32% to know the two commonly used screening methods (cervical cytology and VIA/VILI). Only 30% and 8% respectively know the pace and target of screening. They had all expressed the desire to be trained and to carry out routine screening. All of the respondents had never practiced a cervical cytology, and only 01 had once practiced VIA/VILI. Conclusion: Midwives have little knowledge of uterine cancer screening and do not practice it. They express the need to be trained in order to popularize the practice.展开更多
The HIS is recognised as an essential tool for optimising the management of a health establishment in particular and the health system in general. But it is still very little implemented in hospitals in the South. Ope...The HIS is recognised as an essential tool for optimising the management of a health establishment in particular and the health system in general. But it is still very little implemented in hospitals in the South. Open source HIS software, available on the Internet, can be a solution for starting a (HIS) project in these hospitals. A search on the Internet for open source HIS software allowed us to choose MedBoard, the second most popular open source software out of 381, to start an HIS project called PERFORMANCE at the Kara University Hospital in northern Togo. A questionnaire allowed us to assess the level of knowledge of health actors on hospital information systems. The results of this evaluation allowed us to strengthen our proposal. The analysis of the current computer park of the CHU Kara does not allow whatever the functionalities of MedBoard to implement PERFORMANCE at the CHU Kara. Logistics are needed to make PERFORMANCE work. The real difficulty to start and perpetuate HIS project is linked to the human factor.展开更多
文摘Introduction: cervical cancer is common with high mortality. It is diagnosed late in developing countries. Reducing mortality requires better knowledge and screening for cervical cancer. Objective: To study the knowledge, attitudes and practices of midwives in the Kara region of cervical cancer screening. Methods: Cross-sectional, descriptive study from January 2020 to June 2020 conducted with midwives from the Kara region. Results: Fifty midwives participated in the study. The average age was 32.46 years and the majority (92%) had less than 10 years work experience. Thirty seven (74%) said that cervical cancer was due to human papillomavirus oncogenes and 32% to know the two commonly used screening methods (cervical cytology and VIA/VILI). Only 30% and 8% respectively know the pace and target of screening. They had all expressed the desire to be trained and to carry out routine screening. All of the respondents had never practiced a cervical cytology, and only 01 had once practiced VIA/VILI. Conclusion: Midwives have little knowledge of uterine cancer screening and do not practice it. They express the need to be trained in order to popularize the practice.
文摘The HIS is recognised as an essential tool for optimising the management of a health establishment in particular and the health system in general. But it is still very little implemented in hospitals in the South. Open source HIS software, available on the Internet, can be a solution for starting a (HIS) project in these hospitals. A search on the Internet for open source HIS software allowed us to choose MedBoard, the second most popular open source software out of 381, to start an HIS project called PERFORMANCE at the Kara University Hospital in northern Togo. A questionnaire allowed us to assess the level of knowledge of health actors on hospital information systems. The results of this evaluation allowed us to strengthen our proposal. The analysis of the current computer park of the CHU Kara does not allow whatever the functionalities of MedBoard to implement PERFORMANCE at the CHU Kara. Logistics are needed to make PERFORMANCE work. The real difficulty to start and perpetuate HIS project is linked to the human factor.
