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 preconception care by midwives, nurses and doctors at Ndola
Teaching Hospital in Zambia. Methods:A concurrent embeddedmixed methodology utilising a descriptive
explorative study design,where 107 respondents were randomly selectedusing
the lottery technique for quantitative part and two focused group discussions
for qualitative part of the studywas used. A self-administered questionnaire was
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