Evaluation of Nutritional Surveillance System’s Tasks and Duties at Primary Health Care Centers in Baghdad City
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Abstract
Objectives: The study aims at evaluating the nutritional surveillance systems’ tasks and duties in primary health care centers in Baghdad city
Methodology: A descriptive design, using evaluation approach, is carried throughout the present study to evaluate the nutritional surveillance system in primary health care centers for the period of January 2nd 2020 to March1st 2021.The Nutritional Surveillance System will be exploited as adopted instrument for the present study.A probability, multi-stage simple random sample of (30) primary health care centers (main, family and sub main) distributed in Baghdad AL-Russafa and AL-Karkh directorate. The instrument is concerned with the evaluation of nutritional surveillance systems’ tasks and duties through (48) items which are divided in to ten main domains of detecting and recording cases, epidemiological surveillance, effective search for nutritional statuses, prove the diagnosis of nutritional status, reports preparation, data analysis, early readiness to contain cases, respond to cases, feedback and supervision.Content validity of the questionnaire is determined by panel of (10) expertsand Internal consistency reliability is employed for Evaluation Questionnaire, is obtained through Cronbach alpha correlation coefficient.Data are collected through the use of the study instrument and the interview technique as means of data collection. Data are analyzed through the use of descriptive statistical data analysis approach of frequencies, percentages, total scores and ranges.
Results:The study findings indicate that the majority of the majority of the primary health care centers have poor level of overall evaluation of nutritional surveillance systems’ tasks and duties (86.6%).
Conclusion:The study findings depict that the majority of manpower who are working in nutrition unit have experienced poor attitudes regarding nutritional surveillance system which may result into poor performance.
Recommendation: Follow up the nutritional surveillance systems’ feedback from the Ministry of Health and the Nutrition Research Institute and issue instructions relying on it