Measuring women's experiences during antenatal care (ANC): scoping review of measurement tools.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The new WHO model for antenatal care (ANC) focuses on improving practice, organisation and delivery of ANC within health systems, which includes both clinical care and women's experiences of care. The goal of this review is to identify tools and measures on women's experiences of ANC.

Methods

We conducted a scoping review to identify tools and measures on women's experiences of ANC. An iterative approach was used to review all tools in a series of four steps: (1) identify papers between 2007 and 2023; (2) identify the tools from these papers; (3) map relevant measures to conceptualizations of experiences of care, notably mistreatment of women and respectful maternity care and (4) identify gaps and opportunities to improve measures.

Results

Across the 36 too

SUBMITTER: Mehrtash H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10565981 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature