Author | Country of study | Study Aim | Study Design | Population (Mentor/Mentee) | Intervention | Program duration | Frequency of contact | Outcome Measures | Key Findings |
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Anatole et al. (2013) [8] | Rwanda | Interim evaluation of a nursing mentorship program | Observational checklists completed by mentors, retrospective review of patient records | Rwandan Nurses/Rwandan Nurses | Mentoring and Enhanced Supervision at Health Centres (MESH), ‘Side by side’ mentorship. Mentors received extra training and were integrated into the hospital team | Ongoing | 2–3 days/month | Number & accuracy of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness patient assessments | ‘Side by side’ mentorship improved the quality of care outcomes, and is feasible and cost effective. Scale up was recommended. Significant increase in complete and accurate patient assessments. |
Beckett et al. (2015) [22] | Afghanistan | To evaluate a mentorship intervention by exploring mentee experience. To improve pre-deployment training of mentors | Cross-sectional survey of mentees | Canadian military physicians & surgeons/Afghan physicians, nurses and health personnel | ‘Team to team’ using CANMEDS mentoring techniques | 12 months | Not reported | Mentees perceptions of training, feedback, communication & availability of mentors | Most mentees found mentorship a positive experience. Mentees criticised mentors for failing to consider features of a low-resource setting. |
Finley et al. (2008) [23] | Jordan | To describe a capacity building program incorporating mentorship to develop, implement and evaluate a paediatric pain management program. | Interviews, focus groups, field observation, retrospective review of patient records | Canadian Clinical Nurse Specialists & Anaesthetist/Jordanian Nurses and Oncologists | ‘Team to team mentorship’ Implementing a paediatric pain management service involving mentorship | 24 months | 3 visits through-out the program | Documented pain assessments, Administration of opioid analgesia; | Increased analgesia administration following the program. Mentorship was considered an important factor in the effectiveness of an intervention involving a High-Income Country – Low Income Country partnership. |
Magge et al. (2015) [24] | Rwanda | To measure the change in the quality of care following the addition of a mentorship intervention to didactic training | Pre-post intervention study | MOH Nurse/Health Centre Nurses | ‘Side by side’ model including clinical coaching through case observation, case based and didactic teaching, feedback of performance data and QI facilitation. | Ongoing | ‘regular visits’ | Adherence to Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Assessment Index Number of children seen | Significant improvement in IMCI assessment, classification and treatment, improvement in percentage of children given correct treatment, improved IMCI coverage (proportion of children seen). |
Workneh et al. (2012) [21] | Botswana | To examine the quality of care pre and post introduction of mentoring program | Retrospective patient chart review | Botswana experienced medical officers & nurses/Botswana medical officers & nurses | ‘Side by side’ mentoring during patient care | Ongoing | 1/month | Completion of documentation (viral load count, patient education), pill counts (indicates patients taking medications as prescribed), antiretroviral dosing, lab monitoring. | Improvement in the quality of care post-intervention. Specifically, significant increase in recording of viral load count, correct pill count, correct antiretroviral dosing, patient education documented, correct lab monitoring. |