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Preferences for birth center care in the Netherlands: an exploration of ethnic differences

BACKGROUND: To examine the preferences for comprehensive services and facilities in a new proposed birth center which will be established in a large Dutch city, specifically among pregnant women from different ethnic backgrounds. METHODS: The analyses of this study were based on a survey among 200 p...

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Autores principales: Lescure, Dominique, Schepman, Sanneke, Batenburg, Ronald, Wiegers, Therese A., Verbakel, Ellen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5340014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28264660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1254-3
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author Lescure, Dominique
Schepman, Sanneke
Batenburg, Ronald
Wiegers, Therese A.
Verbakel, Ellen
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description BACKGROUND: To examine the preferences for comprehensive services and facilities in a new proposed birth center which will be established in a large Dutch city, specifically among pregnant women from different ethnic backgrounds. METHODS: The analyses of this study were based on a survey among 200 pregnant women living in The Hague, the Netherlands in 2011. Multiple linear regression was applied to analyze if preferences differ by ethnic background, controlling for various other predictors. RESULTS: Pregnant women had relatively strong preferences for comprehensive services and facilities to be offered by the new proposed birth center compared to both other dimensions of birth center care: extensive practical information and comfortable accommodation. With regard to ethnic differences, non-Dutch women had higher preferences for comprehensive care compared to Dutch women. This difference between Dutch and non-Dutch women increased with their level of education. CONCLUSIONS: Especially for non-Dutch women, birth centers that are able to provide comprehensive services and facilities can potentially be a good setting in which to give birth compared to hospitals or at home. In particular, higher educated non-Dutch women had a preference for the personalized care that could be offered by this new birth center.
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spelling pubmed-53400142017-03-10 Preferences for birth center care in the Netherlands: an exploration of ethnic differences Lescure, Dominique Schepman, Sanneke Batenburg, Ronald Wiegers, Therese A. Verbakel, Ellen BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research Article BACKGROUND: To examine the preferences for comprehensive services and facilities in a new proposed birth center which will be established in a large Dutch city, specifically among pregnant women from different ethnic backgrounds. METHODS: The analyses of this study were based on a survey among 200 pregnant women living in The Hague, the Netherlands in 2011. Multiple linear regression was applied to analyze if preferences differ by ethnic background, controlling for various other predictors. RESULTS: Pregnant women had relatively strong preferences for comprehensive services and facilities to be offered by the new proposed birth center compared to both other dimensions of birth center care: extensive practical information and comfortable accommodation. With regard to ethnic differences, non-Dutch women had higher preferences for comprehensive care compared to Dutch women. This difference between Dutch and non-Dutch women increased with their level of education. CONCLUSIONS: Especially for non-Dutch women, birth centers that are able to provide comprehensive services and facilities can potentially be a good setting in which to give birth compared to hospitals or at home. In particular, higher educated non-Dutch women had a preference for the personalized care that could be offered by this new birth center. BioMed Central 2017-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5340014/ /pubmed/28264660 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1254-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Wiegers, Therese A.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5340014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28264660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1254-3
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