Training needs of registered midwives in two Comprehensive emergency obstetrics and newborn care. The purpose was to determine training needs of registered midwives to inform a training program

The data was collected from N=202 registered midwives who worked in two Comprehensive Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care facilities. The data was collected using a self-administered validated Hennesy-Hicks Training Needs Questionnaire. The first part of the data file is the demographic characteristics of respondents. The variable 'case' is for the anonymous identity of each respondent.  The demographic characteristics include age, highest level of education and work experience. The file also contains 37 variables labelled PTI.  The PTI stands for perceived task importance. The respondent had to rate how important an item was on a Likert Scale of 1-7, as follows: 1 for not important; 2 for slightly important; 3 for quite important; 4 for moderately important; 5 for important; 6 for very important and 7 for extremely important. Then specific training needs were determined. For this variable, respondents indicated which of the seven health conditions they would want to be..., Data was collected from registered midwives who participated voluntarily in the study, using a self-administered questionnaire. Field workers assisted respondents when required to. After the questionnaires were filled, data were transferred to SPSS Software version 29 but questionnaires that had missing values were excluded from the analysis. Data was cleaned in preparation of the analysis.
Descriptive statistics were determined for demographic characteristics of the respondents. Descriptive statistics were also run for all the 37 items. To determine training needs, a low rating on task performance than task importance indicated a training need on that item. A previously used criterion was applied to determine the highest training needs. The criterion was a standard deviation of > than 1.5. From that analysis, 18 training needs were identified.
Adaptation of the data collection tool also included grouping the items into five superordinate categories and determining the..., # Training needs of registered midwives in two Comprehensive emergency obstetrics and newborn care facilities

The purpose was to determine training needs of registered midwives to inform a training program

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.kh18932p5](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.kh18932p5)

## Description of the data and data file structure

The data set contains de-identified data collected through a questionnaire from N=202 registered midwives who worked in two hospitals in Eswatini in the year 2023-2024. The data was descriptive and non-experimental. Training needs of registered midwives were determined using a Hennessy Hicks Training Needs Questionnaire. From the responses of midwives, training needs were identified in all the 37 items of the adapted questionnaire. After application of a previously used criterion of a standard deviation of 1.5. the highest training needs were 19, instead of 37. For the superordinate categories, the research/ audit category had the highest training need..., ,