<p>Demographics of preceptor program participants.</p>

Sierra Leone hosted a six-month midwifery preceptor training program involving 20 participants from two midwifery schools between 2023 and 2024. The dataset likely contains pre- and post-intervention assessment results, including written competency tests, OSCEs, and self-assessments of clinical and precepting competence and confidence. It was authored by Brittney J. van de Water and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Evaluating the effectiveness of a low-dose, high-frequency training program based on pre-post assessment scores.
• Analyzing improvements in specific clinical skills like manual vacuum aspiration based on OSCE results.
• Studying the correlation between self-assessed confidence and objective clinical performance metrics.
• Comparing the impact of training on different competency areas, such as clinical skills versus precepting skills.

Strengths

• Includes data from 20 participants across two midwifery schools.
• Uses multiple assessment methods: written tests, OSCEs, self-assessments, direct observation, and student evaluations.
• Reports statistically significant improvements in written competency tests (p < 0.0001) and OSCEs.
• Provides specific mean differences for clinical skills, such as a 45.76-point improvement for incomplete abortion/manual vacuum aspiration.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Data collected via a pre-post-test design evaluating a pilot midwifery preceptor course.

Time Range

2023-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 17:39:33; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sierra Leone, Sub-Saharan Africa