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Table 1 Operational definitions of variables and measurements to study conducted among health professionals in public hospitals of Southern Ethiopia, 2019

From: Training and well-equipped facility increases the odds of skills of health professionals on helping babies breathe in public hospitals of Southern Ethiopia: cross-sectional study

Variables

Descriptions

Health professionals

Health care providers (nurses, midwives, health officers, Integrated Emergency Surgery and Obstetrics (IESO) and medical doctors) who were working in the delivery ward, NICU, pediatric ward and OR and have access to HBB.

Knowledge of health professionals on HBB

Level of awareness of the health care providers on HBB. Knowledge of health professionals was considered adequate when they answered correctly at least 16 out of 20 knowledge, assessing questions on helping babies breathe (total score of ≥80%) after following algorithms for the main American Heart Association (AHA) advanced cardiac life support, and inadequate when they correctly answered less than 16 out of 20 questions (total score < 80%) [32, 43].

Skills of health professionals on HBB

Skills of health professionals were good for who responded correctly at least 32 of the 40 activities on skill assessment tools for HBB (total score of ≥80%) after following algorithms for the main AHA advanced cardiac life support, and poor for who correctly responded in less than 32 of the 40 activities (total score < 80%) [24, 31].

Well-equipped facility

Those facilities that have both essential items (mucus extractors, infant Ambu bag, face masks, towels, and newborn resuscitation table) and priority items (syringes, suction apparatus, stethoscope for use with newborns and source of warmth).