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Men’s roles in care seeking for maternal and newborn health: a qualitative study applying the three delays model to male involvement in Morogoro Region, Tanzania

BACKGROUND: Increasing the utilization of facility-based care for women and newborns in low-resource settings can reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality. Men influence whether women and newborns receive care because they often control financial resources and household decisions. This in...

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Autores principales: Greenspan, Jesse A., Chebet, Joy J., Mpembeni, Rose, Mosha, Idda, Mpunga, Maurus, Winch, Peter J., Killewo, Japhet, Baqui, Abdullah H., McMahon, Shannon A.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6693212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31409278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-019-2439-8
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author Greenspan, Jesse A.
Chebet, Joy J.
Mpembeni, Rose
Mosha, Idda
Mpunga, Maurus
Winch, Peter J.
Killewo, Japhet
Baqui, Abdullah H.
McMahon, Shannon A.
author_facet Greenspan, Jesse A.
Chebet, Joy J.
Mpembeni, Rose
Mosha, Idda
Mpunga, Maurus
Winch, Peter J.
Killewo, Japhet
Baqui, Abdullah H.
McMahon, Shannon A.
author_sort Greenspan, Jesse A.
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description BACKGROUND: Increasing the utilization of facility-based care for women and newborns in low-resource settings can reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality. Men influence whether women and newborns receive care because they often control financial resources and household decisions. This influence can have negative effects if men misjudge or ignore danger signs or are unwilling or unable to pay for care. Men can also positively affect their families’ health by helping plan for delivery, supplementing women’s knowledge about danger signs, and supporting the use of facility-based care. Because of these positive implications, researchers have called for increased male involvement in maternal and newborn health. However, data gathered directly from men to inform programs are lacking. METHODS: This study draws on in-depth interviews with 27 men in Morogoro Region, Tanzania whose partners delivered in the previous 14 months. Debriefings took place throughout data collection. Interview transcripts were analyzed inductively to identify relevant themes and devise an analysis questionnaire, subsequently applied deductively to all transcripts. RESULTS: Study findings add a partner-focused dimension to the three delays model of maternal care seeking. Men in the study often, though not universally, described facilitating access to care for women and newborns at each point along this care-seeking continuum (deciding to seek care, reaching a facility, and receiving care). Specifically, men reported taking ownership of their role as decision makers and described themselves as supportive of facility-based care. Men described arranging transport and accompanying their partners to facilities, especially for non-routine care. Men also discussed purchasing supplies and medications, acting as patient advocates, and registering complaints about health services. In addition, men described barriers to their involvement including a lack of knowledge, the need to focus on income-generating activities, the cost of care, and policies limiting male involvement at facilities. CONCLUSION: Men can leverage their influence over household resources and decision making to facilitate care seeking and navigate challenges accessing care for women and newborns. Examining these findings from men and understanding the barriers they face can help inform interventions that encourage men to be positively and proactively involved in maternal and newborn health.
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spelling pubmed-66932122019-08-16 Men’s roles in care seeking for maternal and newborn health: a qualitative study applying the three delays model to male involvement in Morogoro Region, Tanzania Greenspan, Jesse A. Chebet, Joy J. Mpembeni, Rose Mosha, Idda Mpunga, Maurus Winch, Peter J. Killewo, Japhet Baqui, Abdullah H. McMahon, Shannon A. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research Article BACKGROUND: Increasing the utilization of facility-based care for women and newborns in low-resource settings can reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality. Men influence whether women and newborns receive care because they often control financial resources and household decisions. This influence can have negative effects if men misjudge or ignore danger signs or are unwilling or unable to pay for care. Men can also positively affect their families’ health by helping plan for delivery, supplementing women’s knowledge about danger signs, and supporting the use of facility-based care. Because of these positive implications, researchers have called for increased male involvement in maternal and newborn health. However, data gathered directly from men to inform programs are lacking. METHODS: This study draws on in-depth interviews with 27 men in Morogoro Region, Tanzania whose partners delivered in the previous 14 months. Debriefings took place throughout data collection. Interview transcripts were analyzed inductively to identify relevant themes and devise an analysis questionnaire, subsequently applied deductively to all transcripts. RESULTS: Study findings add a partner-focused dimension to the three delays model of maternal care seeking. Men in the study often, though not universally, described facilitating access to care for women and newborns at each point along this care-seeking continuum (deciding to seek care, reaching a facility, and receiving care). Specifically, men reported taking ownership of their role as decision makers and described themselves as supportive of facility-based care. Men described arranging transport and accompanying their partners to facilities, especially for non-routine care. Men also discussed purchasing supplies and medications, acting as patient advocates, and registering complaints about health services. In addition, men described barriers to their involvement including a lack of knowledge, the need to focus on income-generating activities, the cost of care, and policies limiting male involvement at facilities. CONCLUSION: Men can leverage their influence over household resources and decision making to facilitate care seeking and navigate challenges accessing care for women and newborns. Examining these findings from men and understanding the barriers they face can help inform interventions that encourage men to be positively and proactively involved in maternal and newborn health. BioMed Central 2019-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6693212/ /pubmed/31409278 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-019-2439-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 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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Greenspan, Jesse A.
Chebet, Joy J.
Mpembeni, Rose
Mosha, Idda
Mpunga, Maurus
Winch, Peter J.
Killewo, Japhet
Baqui, Abdullah H.
McMahon, Shannon A.
Men’s roles in care seeking for maternal and newborn health: a qualitative study applying the three delays model to male involvement in Morogoro Region, Tanzania
title Men’s roles in care seeking for maternal and newborn health: a qualitative study applying the three delays model to male involvement in Morogoro Region, Tanzania
title_full Men’s roles in care seeking for maternal and newborn health: a qualitative study applying the three delays model to male involvement in Morogoro Region, Tanzania
title_fullStr Men’s roles in care seeking for maternal and newborn health: a qualitative study applying the three delays model to male involvement in Morogoro Region, Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed Men’s roles in care seeking for maternal and newborn health: a qualitative study applying the three delays model to male involvement in Morogoro Region, Tanzania
title_short Men’s roles in care seeking for maternal and newborn health: a qualitative study applying the three delays model to male involvement in Morogoro Region, Tanzania
title_sort men’s roles in care seeking for maternal and newborn health: a qualitative study applying the three delays model to male involvement in morogoro region, tanzania
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6693212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31409278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-019-2439-8
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