How communication can help women who experience a maternal near-miss: a qualitative study from Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to explore experiences of communication as an element of quality of care, among women surviving a maternal near-miss event, thus women who nearly died but survived haemorrhage, or pre-eclampsia complication during pregnancy, childbirth or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy.

Design

A descriptive, phenomenological, qualitative study using semistructured interviews with women who survived a maternal near-miss in Southern Tanzania.

Setting

The participants were recruited from two selected hospitals in Mtwara Region, where women sought child birth care and developed near-miss condition.

Participants

Participants for this study were women who experienced and survived a maternal near-miss event and who had lived in the study area fo

SUBMITTER: Kwezi HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8562531 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature