A proper health information management system goes a long way to effectively influence data-driven decision making to improve health delivery. Despite dedicating enormous resources to adequately manage health information in the health systems, health facility managers who are the main custodians of this information at the facility levels pay little or no attention to the management of this information. This study therefore aimed at assessing the knowledge, attitude and practice of health information management among health facility managers in government health facilities. An institutional-based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from 1st February to 10th March 2022 in 68 purposively selected government health facilities in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. A pretested researcher-administered structured questionnaire was used to elicit quantitative data from health facility managers. Epi Info version 7 and STATA version 13 were used for data entry, cleaning and analysis respectively. Univariate descriptive statistics were computed. Fisher’s exact Binary logistic regression analysis was done to identify factors influencing knowledge, attitude and practice levels. An odd ratio at a 95% confidence level was used to describe the strength of the association. The overall adequate knowledge score was 34.3% with a mean score of 9.09±0.97. Good attitude and practice scores were 41.8% and 47.8% with mean scores of 3.01±1.04 and 6.22±2.60 respectively. Adequate knowledge among respondents who were 30 years and above was 10 times more compared to respondents whose ages were below the 30 years (95%CI (10.00,4.53.45), p = 0.016). Respondents who had worked for 5 years or more were more likely to have adequate knowledge of health information management compared to the respondents who have worked for less than 5 years (COR = 4.96 [95%CI (1.20,29.83)], p = 0.022). Sex, educational level, and respondents’ specialty were not statistically significant with the health information management knowledge level. All socio-demographics used in the multivariate analysis were not statistically significant with attitude and practice level of health information management among respondents. Knowledge, attitude and practice level of health information management were found to be very poor among health facility managers. Capacity building tailored towards health facility managers would help ensure effective supervision and monitoring of routine health information management. Future research would be needed to explore the reason behind the poor level of health managers’ knowledge, attitude and practice of health information management.
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abstract = {A proper health information management system goes a long way to effectively influence data-driven decision making to improve health delivery. Despite dedicating enormous resources to adequately manage health information in the health systems, health facility managers who are the main custodians of this information at the facility levels pay little or no attention to the management of this information. This study therefore aimed at assessing the knowledge, attitude and practice of health information management among health facility managers in government health facilities. An institutional-based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from 1st February to 10th March 2022 in 68 purposively selected government health facilities in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. A pretested researcher-administered structured questionnaire was used to elicit quantitative data from health facility managers. Epi Info version 7 and STATA version 13 were used for data entry, cleaning and analysis respectively. Univariate descriptive statistics were computed. Fisher’s exact Binary logistic regression analysis was done to identify factors influencing knowledge, attitude and practice levels. An odd ratio at a 95% confidence level was used to describe the strength of the association. The overall adequate knowledge score was 34.3% with a mean score of 9.09±0.97. Good attitude and practice scores were 41.8% and 47.8% with mean scores of 3.01±1.04 and 6.22±2.60 respectively. Adequate knowledge among respondents who were 30 years and above was 10 times more compared to respondents whose ages were below the 30 years (95%CI (10.00,4.53.45), p = 0.016). Respondents who had worked for 5 years or more were more likely to have adequate knowledge of health information management compared to the respondents who have worked for less than 5 years (COR = 4.96 [95%CI (1.20,29.83)], p = 0.022). Sex, educational level, and respondents’ specialty were not statistically significant with the health information management knowledge level. All socio-demographics used in the multivariate analysis were not statistically significant with attitude and practice level of health information management among respondents. Knowledge, attitude and practice level of health information management were found to be very poor among health facility managers. Capacity building tailored towards health facility managers would help ensure effective supervision and monitoring of routine health information management. Future research would be needed to explore the reason behind the poor level of health managers’ knowledge, attitude and practice of health information management.},
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