This study assessed midwives’ knowledge and use of Non-
Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment in the management of
postpartum hemorrhage. A descriptive design was adopted
for this study. The population is registered midwives
working in Central hospital Benin City. Taro Yameh’s
formula was used to determine the sample size of 150
participants and a simple random sampling technique were
used to select the respondents that took part in the study. A
self- developed structured questionnaire was given to
experts for face validation, while the reliability was
determined through internal consistency and reliable
with a Cronbach’s alpha value of 0.799. Data were analyzed
and presented in percentages, graphs and inferential
statistics using the chi square (÷2) test at 95% confidence
interval. The result revealed that majority of the
respondents (93.3%) claimed that anti-shock garments are
available in Central hospital Benin City. Also, the result
showed that more than half of the respondents were
knowledgeable about the use of NASG in preventing postpartum
Hemorrhage. Out of the 150 respondents used for
this study, 68.6% demonstrated knowledge on the application
of NASG and a similar trend is observed among respondents
on knowledge of other methods of prevention of PPH.
Further, the result revealed that only 16.6% reported that
they use NASG 11 – 20times, Lastly, this study showed that
there is a significant association between knowledge of
NASG and its use which is at P<0.05. In conclusion, the
study showed that the Midwives knowledge of NASG are
good but its use is poor.
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