Prevalence and risk factor for mistreatment in childbirth: In health facilities of Gondar city, Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing compassionate and respectful maternity care to mothers is a vital intervention to improve health outcomes of women and newborns. However, there is less data of compassionate and respectful maternity care in Gondar city. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the magnitude of mistreatment and associated factors among mothers who gave birth at the public health facilities in Gondar city, northwest Ethiopia.

Methods

Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted from March to April 2019 in Gondar city public nine health facilities. A total of 584 randomly selected women in the postpartum period were recruited in this study. A binary logistic regression analysis was done to see whether there was an association between mistreatment and independent var

SUBMITTER: Shemelis D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9070956 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature