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 trained on. These were based on the results from the
pretesting of the data collection tool. Respondents were also asked to
mention other topics they would want to be trained on, therefore that
variable “other specific needs” was a string variable. During analysis,
the variable was coded based on the 14 similar responses
provided.  The last part of the tool contains 37 items on PTP
which stands for perceived task performance. The respondent had
to rate how important an item was on a Likert Scale of 1-7, as
follows: 1 for not well; 2 for slightly well; 3 for quite well; 4
for moderately well; 5 for well; 6 for very well and 7 for extremely
well.  We found that all 37 items had training needs. The
research/audit category had the highest training need, while training on
newborn resuscitation was the highest training need on the specific
training needs.