Title : Development of knowledge, attitude and practice of ethiopian traditionalmedical practitioners though a compressive training addis ababa, Ethiopia
Abstract:
Background: The Ethiopian health sector has shown remarkable progress in improving the maternal and underfive children by reducing the morbidity and mortality throughout the country level. There is an improvement in theexpansion of health facilities and health services in each health care facility. Besides the expansion of healthfacilities, a large number of Ethiopian utilizes traditional medicine. Providing training or health education to thetraditional medical practitioners expands the Ministries effort for the prevention of diseases which one of the corecomponents of the health policy. The goal of the training is improving in the Ethiopian health care systems throughparticipation of the Traditional medical practitioners in the health care systems.
Techniques: The training package was cover topics relevant to health policy, regulations, Health SystemTransformation Plan agendas, and progress of the health system, Ethiopian Traditional medicines, IntellectualProperty Rights, Conservation of traditional medicines, Research methods on Traditional medicines, Regulation ofTraditional medicine/Traditional medicine Practitioners, Medical Ethics World health organization guidelines on goodmanufacturing practices for herbal medicines and Health Education. The audiences are traditional healer’s fromvarious regions of Ethiopia. The training methods were include Lecture, Case Studies, Demonstration, practice andGroup discussion to capture the knowledge, skill and value areas of each training course.
Outcome: On this the first round traditional healer training 50 traditional practitioners was participated though outthe country. Analysis from a mini training assessment during the time of training indicated that the training werecapacitating knowledge, attitude and practice on traditional medicine and practice as a primary health care serviceprovider on the community.
Conclusion: based on the outcome evaluation we concluded that multidisciplinary approach and practice arerequired to achieve the objective of this project. Also, compressive and holistic training manual preparations areexpected from this and planned subsequent traditional medicine practitioner training.
