Effects of a performance and quality improvement intervention on the work environment in HIV-related care: a quasi-experimental evaluation in Zambia

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• 作者：Eva Bazant ; Supriya Sarkar ; Joseph Banda ; Webby Kanjipite…
• 关键词：Delivery of health care ; Health facilities/standards ; Health personnel ; HIV ; Prevention of mother ; to ; child transmission of HIV ; Quality improvement ; Quality of care ; Zambia
• 刊名：Human Resources for Health
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：December 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：12
• 期：1
• 全文大小：418 KB
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• 刊物主题：Health Administration; Social Policy;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1478-4491

文摘

Background Human resource shortages and reforms in HIV-related care make it challenging for frontline health care providers in southern Africa to deliver high-quality services. At health facilities of the Zambian Defence Forces, a performance and quality improvement approach was implemented to improve HIV-related care and was evaluated in 2010/2011. Changes in providers-work environment and perceived quality of HIV-related care were assessed to complement data of provider performance. Methods The intervention involved on-site training, supportive supervision, and action planning focusing on detailed service delivery standards. The quasi-experimental evaluation collected pre- and post-intervention data from eight intervention and comparison facilities matched on defence force branch and baseline client volume. Overall, 101 providers responded to a 24-item questionnaire on the work environment, covering topics of drugs, supplies, and equipment; training, feedback, and supervision; compensation; staffing; safety; fulfilment; and HIV services quality. In bivariate analysis and multivariate analyses, we assessed changes within each study group and between the two groups. Results In the bivariate analysis, the intervention group providers reported improvements in the work environment on adequacy of equipment, feeling safe from harm, confidence in clinical skills, and reduced isolation, while the comparison group reported worsening of the work environment on supplies, training, safety, and departmental morale. In the multivariate analysis, the intervention group’s improvement and the comparison group’s decline were significant on perceived adequacy of drugs, supplies, and equipment; constructive feedback received from supervisor and co-workers; and feeling safe from physical harm (all P P P-?-.005). In multivariate analysis, changes in perceived quality of HIV care did not differ between study groups. Provider perceptions were congruent with observations of preparing drugs, supplies, equipment, and in service delivery of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and antiretroviral therapy follow-up care. Conclusions The performance and quality improvement intervention implemented at Zambian Defence Forces-health facilities was associated with improvements in providers-perceptions of work environment consistent with the intervention’s focus on commodities, skills acquisition, and receipt of constructive feedback.