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- Title
Increased satisfaction of maternity hospital staff involved in fetal telediagnosis.
- Authors
Hishitani, Takashi; Kawachi, Fumie; Fujimoto, Yoshitaka; Sugamoto, Kenji; Hoshino, Kenji; Ogawa, Kiyoshi
- Abstract
Questionnaires were sent to 14 maternity hospital staff members for qualitative assessment at the start of fetal telediagnosis and at the end of the study using a five-point Likert scale: 5, I strongly think so; 4, I think so; 3, I can't decide; 2, I don't think so; 1, I never think so. Ten questionnaires were returned to us (71%). The results showed that the staff reported a significant increase in confidence in performing fetal cardiac screening (score 2.3 at start, 3.4 at study completion; P = 0.034), the rate of score increase rose with the number of telediagnoses (r = 0.72, P < 0.05), feedback from a specialist was very useful (4.4 and 4.9, respectively), and real-time image transmission was preferred over recorded images (score 3.7 vs 2.4, respectively; P = 0.042). The excellent educational effect of telemedicine is useful for staff members to improve their skills while nurturing their motivation, leading to the promotion of fetal cardiac screening in regional areas.
- Subjects
HOSPITALS; JOB satisfaction; MATERNAL health services; MEDICAL personnel; PRENATAL diagnosis; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; SCALE analysis (Psychology); STATISTICS; TELEMEDICINE; QUALITATIVE research; DATA analysis; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Pediatrics International, 2014, Vol 56, Issue 4, p644
- ISSN
1328-8067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ped.12393