RESEARCH ARTICLE
An Integrated Reporting Tool for Management of Hiv And Non-communicable Diseases for Primary Health Care Facilities in Limpopo Province, South Africa
N.S. Murudi-Manganye1, *, L. Makhado2, L.A. Sehularo1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2022Volume: 15
E-location ID: e187494452208180
Publisher ID: e187494452208180
DOI: 10.2174/18749445-v15-e2208180
Article History:
Received Date: 14/10/2021Revision Received Date: 27/1/2022
Acceptance Date: 17/2/2022
Electronic publication date: 14/10/2022
Collection year: 2022
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Introduction:
Reporting of a health programme such as integrated management of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) is essential for programme evaluation to improve patient clinical outcomes. It is a criterion that all services that are provided in primary health care facilities and hospitals are monitored, evaluated and reported according to the approved reporting tools and approved health indicators.
Aim:
This study aimed to develop a reporting tool to report the implementation of integrated management of HIV and NCDs in Limpopo Province, South Africa.
Methodology:
The South African National Indicators Data Sets (NIDS) were adopted and used to develop the integrated management of HIV and NCDs reporting tool. A Delphi technique was used to validate the developed reporting tool. Eight (8) HIV and NCDs programme experts participated in the review process to establish the validity of the developed tool.
Results:
Eight integrated HIV and NCDs data elements reporting tool were developed and reviewed by eight (8) programme experts. The tool was found to be relevant and useful and likely to be adopted by Limpopo province for implementation.
Conclusion:
This was the first integrated HIV and NCDs reporting tool to be developed for Nurse Initiated Management of Antiretroviral Therapy (NIMART) Nurses in Limpopo Province to serve as a basic reporting tool to improve the integrated management of HIV and NCDs including patient outcomes.
