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Exploring the first delay: a qualitative study of home deliveries in Makwanpur district Nepal

BACKGROUND: In many low-income countries women tend to deliver at home, and delays in receiving appropriate maternal care can be fatal. A contextual understanding of these delays is important if countries are to meet development targets for maternal health. We present qualitative research with women...

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Autores principales: Morrison, Joanna, Thapa, Rita, Basnet, Machhindra, Budhathoki, Bharat, Tumbahangphe, Kirti, Manandhar, Dharma, Costello, Anthony, Osrin, David
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3939637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24576187
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-14-89
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author Morrison, Joanna
Thapa, Rita
Basnet, Machhindra
Budhathoki, Bharat
Tumbahangphe, Kirti
Manandhar, Dharma
Costello, Anthony
Osrin, David
author_facet Morrison, Joanna
Thapa, Rita
Basnet, Machhindra
Budhathoki, Bharat
Tumbahangphe, Kirti
Manandhar, Dharma
Costello, Anthony
Osrin, David
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description BACKGROUND: In many low-income countries women tend to deliver at home, and delays in receiving appropriate maternal care can be fatal. A contextual understanding of these delays is important if countries are to meet development targets for maternal health. We present qualitative research with women who delivered at home in rural Nepal, to gain a contemporary understanding of the context where we are testing the effectiveness of an intervention to increase institutional deliveries. METHODS: We purposively sampled women who had recently delivered at home and interviewed them to explore their reasons for home delivery. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic content analysis. We used the ‘delays’ model discussed in the literature to frame our analysis. RESULTS: Usually a combination of factors prevented women from delivering in health institutions. Many women were aware of the benefits of institutional delivery yet their status in the home restricted their access to health facilities. Often they did not wish to bring shame on their family by going against their wishes, or through showing their body in a health institution. They often felt unable to demand the organisation of transportation because this may cause financial problems for their family. Some felt that government incentives were insufficient. Often, a lack of family support at the time of delivery meant that women delivered at home. Past bad experience, and poor quality health services, also prevented women from having an institutional delivery. CONCLUSIONS: Formative research is important to develop an understanding of local context. Sociocultural issues, perceived accessibility of health services, and perceived quality of care were all important barriers preventing institutional delivery. Targeting one factor alone may not be effective in increasing institutional deliveries. Our intervention encourages communities to develop local responses to address the factors preventing institutional delivery through women’s groups and improved health facility management. We will monitor perceptions of health services over time to help us understand the effectiveness of the intervention.
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spelling pubmed-39396372014-03-04 Exploring the first delay: a qualitative study of home deliveries in Makwanpur district Nepal Morrison, Joanna Thapa, Rita Basnet, Machhindra Budhathoki, Bharat Tumbahangphe, Kirti Manandhar, Dharma Costello, Anthony Osrin, David BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research Article BACKGROUND: In many low-income countries women tend to deliver at home, and delays in receiving appropriate maternal care can be fatal. A contextual understanding of these delays is important if countries are to meet development targets for maternal health. We present qualitative research with women who delivered at home in rural Nepal, to gain a contemporary understanding of the context where we are testing the effectiveness of an intervention to increase institutional deliveries. METHODS: We purposively sampled women who had recently delivered at home and interviewed them to explore their reasons for home delivery. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic content analysis. We used the ‘delays’ model discussed in the literature to frame our analysis. RESULTS: Usually a combination of factors prevented women from delivering in health institutions. Many women were aware of the benefits of institutional delivery yet their status in the home restricted their access to health facilities. Often they did not wish to bring shame on their family by going against their wishes, or through showing their body in a health institution. They often felt unable to demand the organisation of transportation because this may cause financial problems for their family. Some felt that government incentives were insufficient. Often, a lack of family support at the time of delivery meant that women delivered at home. Past bad experience, and poor quality health services, also prevented women from having an institutional delivery. CONCLUSIONS: Formative research is important to develop an understanding of local context. Sociocultural issues, perceived accessibility of health services, and perceived quality of care were all important barriers preventing institutional delivery. Targeting one factor alone may not be effective in increasing institutional deliveries. Our intervention encourages communities to develop local responses to address the factors preventing institutional delivery through women’s groups and improved health facility management. We will monitor perceptions of health services over time to help us understand the effectiveness of the intervention. BioMed Central 2014-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3939637/ /pubmed/24576187 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-14-89 Text en Copyright © 2014 Morrison et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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Manandhar, Dharma
Costello, Anthony
Osrin, David
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