Midwives’ Satisfaction with the Paperless Partograph as a Tool for Monitoring Labour in a Secondary Care Facility Katsina State

Abstract

Background: Midwives remain the major human resource for improving maternal health in communities especially by providing essential intrapartum care that is paramount in reducing maternal mortality. A paperless approach to the use of the partograph can ensure the use of the partograph by midwives in low resource settings thereby decreasing prolonged labours with its attendant morbidities.

Aim: This study aimed to assess midwives’ satisfaction with the use of the paperless partograph in the monitoring of labours in Katsina, Nigeria.

Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional research design was used. A total of 16 midwives employed in the delivery ward of the secondary care facility were purposefully recruited for the study. Using a researcher questionnaire, the opinions of the midwives working in the delivery ward were obtained.

Results: The midwives reported satisfaction with the tool with an aggregate mean of 5.78 (constant mean = 4). Conclusion: the paperless partograph is a satisfactory tool that can be adopted for the monitoring of labours.

Keywords: Midwives, Satisfaction, Paperless Partograph, Labour.