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Women’s suggestions on how to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A co-occurrence network analysis

BACKGROUND: Recent evidence revealed significant gaps in the quality of maternal and newborn care in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region (EUR) countries. Collecting and analyzing women’s views on their needs and priorities is crucial for developing actions to improve the quality of m...

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Autores principales: Geremia, Sara, Valente, Emanuelle Pessa, Mariani, Ilaria, Dalena, Paolo, Lazzerini, Marzia
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Publicado: International Society of Global Health 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10161149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37144478
http://dx.doi.org/10.7189/jogh.13.06013
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author Geremia, Sara
Valente, Emanuelle Pessa
Mariani, Ilaria
Dalena, Paolo
Lazzerini, Marzia
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Valente, Emanuelle Pessa
Mariani, Ilaria
Dalena, Paolo
Lazzerini, Marzia
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description BACKGROUND: Recent evidence revealed significant gaps in the quality of maternal and newborn care in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region (EUR) countries. Collecting and analyzing women’s views on their needs and priorities is crucial for developing actions to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care. With this study from the IMAgiNE EURO Project, we aimed to add to previous quantitative studies by analysing emerging themes from women’s suggestions on how to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care during facility-based birth in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: We collected data from mothers giving birth during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic using a validated online anonymous WHO standard-based questionnaire consisting of open-ended questions. Using a word co-occurrence network (WCON), we analysed responses in Italian from women who gave birth between March 2020 and March 2022. This approach entails a graphical representation of word pairings that frequently co-occur across sentences and compose clusters. RESULTS: The texts, produced by 2010 women participating in the study, consisted of 79 204 words and 3833 sentences. Eight clusters emerged with WCON, the three largest of which were related to companionship during childbirth, breastfeeding support, and physical resources. The term “swab”, associated with other terms in the COVID-19 domain, had the highest degree of centrality, thus representing a core topic. CONCLUSIONS: The key emerging themes from women's suggestions can be used to shape policies to improve the quality of care for mothers and newborns. Our WCON analysis offers a valid approach to quickly screen large textual data on quality of care, providing a first set of major themes identified by clusters. As such, it could be used to improve documentation of service users’ suggestions promoting the engagement of both researchers and policymakers. REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04847336.
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spelling pubmed-101611492023-05-06 Women’s suggestions on how to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A co-occurrence network analysis Geremia, Sara Valente, Emanuelle Pessa Mariani, Ilaria Dalena, Paolo Lazzerini, Marzia J Glob Health Articles BACKGROUND: Recent evidence revealed significant gaps in the quality of maternal and newborn care in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region (EUR) countries. Collecting and analyzing women’s views on their needs and priorities is crucial for developing actions to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care. With this study from the IMAgiNE EURO Project, we aimed to add to previous quantitative studies by analysing emerging themes from women’s suggestions on how to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care during facility-based birth in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: We collected data from mothers giving birth during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic using a validated online anonymous WHO standard-based questionnaire consisting of open-ended questions. Using a word co-occurrence network (WCON), we analysed responses in Italian from women who gave birth between March 2020 and March 2022. This approach entails a graphical representation of word pairings that frequently co-occur across sentences and compose clusters. RESULTS: The texts, produced by 2010 women participating in the study, consisted of 79 204 words and 3833 sentences. Eight clusters emerged with WCON, the three largest of which were related to companionship during childbirth, breastfeeding support, and physical resources. The term “swab”, associated with other terms in the COVID-19 domain, had the highest degree of centrality, thus representing a core topic. CONCLUSIONS: The key emerging themes from women's suggestions can be used to shape policies to improve the quality of care for mothers and newborns. Our WCON analysis offers a valid approach to quickly screen large textual data on quality of care, providing a first set of major themes identified by clusters. As such, it could be used to improve documentation of service users’ suggestions promoting the engagement of both researchers and policymakers. REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04847336. International Society of Global Health 2023-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10161149/ /pubmed/37144478 http://dx.doi.org/10.7189/jogh.13.06013 Text en Copyright © 2023 by the Journal of Global Health. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Geremia, Sara
Valente, Emanuelle Pessa
Mariani, Ilaria
Dalena, Paolo
Lazzerini, Marzia
Women’s suggestions on how to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A co-occurrence network analysis
title Women’s suggestions on how to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A co-occurrence network analysis
title_full Women’s suggestions on how to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A co-occurrence network analysis
title_fullStr Women’s suggestions on how to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A co-occurrence network analysis
title_full_unstemmed Women’s suggestions on how to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A co-occurrence network analysis
title_short Women’s suggestions on how to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A co-occurrence network analysis
title_sort women’s suggestions on how to improve the quality of maternal and newborn care during the covid-19 pandemic in italy: a co-occurrence network analysis
topic Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10161149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37144478
http://dx.doi.org/10.7189/jogh.13.06013
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