Mitigating the mistreatment of childbearing women: evaluation of respectful maternity care intervention in Ethiopian hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There is a lack of evidence on approaches to mitigating mistreatment during facility-based childbirth. This study compares the experiences of mistreatment reported by childbearing women before and after implementation of a respectful maternity care intervention.

Design

A pre-post study design was undertaken to quantify changes in women's experiences of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth before and after the respectful maternity care intervention.

Intervention

A respectful maternity care intervention was implemented in three hospitals in southern Ethiopia between December 2017 and September 2018 and it included training of service providers, placement of wall posters in labour rooms and post-training supportive visits for quality improvement.

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SUBMITTER: Asefa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7473661 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature