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Background: Domestic violence (DV) is a pervasive human-right violation and is an impediment to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Although they may not often disclose their violence, survivors of DV are most likely to be treated by health care providers. Thus, this study aimed to assess the effectiveness of training intervention in improving the readiness of health care providers for managing domestic violence in Jimma Medical Center. Methods: Pre-experimental study design was undertaken among 64 health care providers of Jimma Medical Center on two rounds from March 16 to 19 and from May 18 to 21/2022. Data were collected by using a structured self-administered questionnaire and entered into Epi-data version 4.6 and exported to SPSS version 23 for analysis. To test the difference in the participants' readiness to manage DV in terms of knowledge and attitude; a Paired-samples t-test analysis was done at 95%-confidence-interval and p-value <0.05. To quantify the magnitude of the intervention's effect, Eta-squared was computed as an effect size statistic. Results: The overall knowledge score was improved from pre-intervention (M= 12.44, SD=4.55) to post-intervention (M=15.66, SD= 5.48, t(4.29), p<0.0005). The overall attitude score was improved from pre-intervention (M= 156.4, SD= 15.68) to post-intervention (M=169.1, SD=20.67, t(3.8), p<0.0005). The Eta-squared value for the knowledge was 0.23 and for the attitude was 0.19 both indicating a large effect size. Conclusion: Significant improvement in the study participants' readiness for managing DV was a result in this study with a large effect size. Thus, different concerned stakeholders should provide training intervention for health care providers of Jimma Medical center to improve their readiness to manage survivors of domestic violence thereby contributing to the reduction of the negative consequences that can be resulted from poor management of domestic violence.
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Background: Although clinical conferences are promising clinical teaching strategy for ensuring meaningful clinical learning, they were mostly overlooked. Thus, this study aimed to assess the effectiveness of pre- and post-clinical conferences in improving clinical learning among third-year undergraduate midwifery students of Jimma University. Methods: A quantitative institution-based pre-experimental study was performed among consecutively selected thirty-four third-year regular undergraduate midwifery students of Jimma University from February 14 to 25/2021. Data were collected by using both a self-administered questionnaire and an observational checklist. The collected data were entered into Epi_data version 4.6 and exported to SPSS version 23 for analysis. To test the difference in the participants' clinical learning before and after the pre- and post-clinical conferences, a paired-samples t-test analysis was done at a 95% confidence interval and p-value <0.05. To quantify the magnitude of the intervention's effect, Eta squared was computed as an effect size statistic. The results were presented by text and tables. Results: There was a statistically significant improvement in the overall clinical learning score from pre-intervention (M = 8.79, SD = 4.1) to post-intervention [M = 15.65, SD = 15.65, t (33)= 8.53, p < 0.0005]. Also, the Eta squared = 0.69 indicated a large effect size. Conclusion: Since pre- and post-clinical conferences resulted in improvement of clinical learning among the respondents, the routine utilization of the pre- and post-clinical conferences as an effective clinical teaching strategy should be encouraged among the midwifery clinical teachers of Jimma University.
