Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Scaling up kangaroo mother care in South Africa: 'on-site' versus 'off-site' educational facilitation | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Scaling up kangaroo mother care in South Africa on-site versus off-site educational facilitation Anne-Marie Bergh 1 2 Elise van Rooyen1 3 and Robert C Pattinson1 2 Open Access Address 1MRC Research Unit for Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies South Africa 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology University of Pretoria South Africa and 3Department of Paediatrics University of Pretoria South Africa Email Anne-Marie Bergh - apbergh@ Elise van Rooyen - Robert C Pattinson - Corresponding author Published 23 July 2008 Received 4 January 2008 Human Resources for Health 2008 6 13 doi 1478-4491-6-13 Accepted 23 July 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 13 2008 Bergh et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Scaling up the implementation of new health care interventions can be challenging and demand intensive training or retraining of health workers. This paper reports on the results of testing the effectiveness of two different kinds of face-to-face facilitation used in conjunction with a well-designed educational package in the scaling up of kangaroo mother care. Methods Thirty-six hospitals in the Provinces of Gauteng and Mpumalanga in South Africa were targeted to implement kangaroo mother care and participated in the trial. The hospitals were paired with respect to their geographical location and annual number of births. One hospital in each pair was randomly allocated to receive either on-site facilitation Group A or off-site facilitation Group B . Hospitals in Group A received two on-site visits whereas delegates from .
