Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2024, 14, 393-421 https://www.scirp.org/journal/ojog ISSN Online: 2160-8806 ISSN Print: 2160-8792 DOI: 10.4236/ojog.2024.143036 Mar. 18, 2024 393 Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Provision of Preconception Care by Midwives, Nurses and Doctors at Ndola Teaching Hospital in Ndola District, Zambia Gloria Sakanyi 1* , Febian Chapima 2 , Concepta Namukolo Kwaleyela 3 1 Department of Nursing, Ndola College of Nursing and Midwifery, Ndola, Zambia 2 Department of Basic and Clinical Sciences, School of Nursing Sciences, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia 3 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mulungushi University, Kabwe, Zambia Abstract Background: The goal of preconception care is to improve the outcome of a mother’s pregnancy and childbirth. Nevertheless, in most developing nations; Zambia included, there are still issues with implementation of preconception care. Therefore, the aim of this study was to establish the provision of pre- conception care by midwives, nurses and doctors at Ndola Teaching Hospital in Zambia. Methods: A concurrent embedded mixed methodology utilising a descriptive explorative study design, where 107 respondents were randomly selected using the lottery technique for quantitative part and two focused group discussions for qualitative part of the study was used. A self-administered ques- tionnaire was used to collect quantitative data and a focus group discussion guide was used for the focus group discussions. Statistical Package of Social Sciences version 26 with significance set at 0.05 and at 95% confidence level and thematic analysis were used for data analysis. Results: 75% of the re- spondents in this study were not providing preconception care and only 25% of respondents were providing preconception care; however, this was pro- vided randomly because there were no guidelines to follow. Among the re- spondents, 81.3% had medium knowledge, 70.1% had good practices and 92.5% had positive attitudes towards preconception care. Further analysis showed that the association between preconception care and knowledge, practices and attitudes was not statistically significant (p = values 0.336; 0.344; 1.000 respectively). Multivariate logistic regression revealed that par- ticipants with high knowledge were five times more likely to provide precon- ception care (OR = 5.00, CI = 0.42 - 59.7, P = 0.203). Generally, all the par- ticipants acknowledged that preconception care was an important package that could prevent maternal and child morbidities and mortalities. Conclu- sions: The study revealed that most of the respondents were not providing How to cite this paper: Sakanyi, G., Chapima, F. and Kwaleyela, C.N. (2024) Provision of Preconception Care by Mid- wives, Nurses and Doctors at Ndola Teach- ing Hospital in Ndola District, Zambia. Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecolo- gy, 14, 393-421. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojog.2024.143036 Received: February 6, 2024 Accepted: March 15, 2024 Published: March 18, 2024 Copyright © 2024 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access