Cargando…

Male partners’ involvement in pregnancy related care among married men in Ibadan, Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Maternal death remains a public health burden in the developing countries including Nigeria and the major causes are pregnancy related. Lack of male involvement in pregnancy related care is one of the contributing factors. Previous studies on male involvement focused on family planning s...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Falade-Fatila, Olayinka, Adebayo, Ayodeji Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31992315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-020-0850-2
_version_ 1783492248046927872
author Falade-Fatila, Olayinka
Adebayo, Ayodeji Matthew
author_facet Falade-Fatila, Olayinka
Adebayo, Ayodeji Matthew
author_sort Falade-Fatila, Olayinka
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Maternal death remains a public health burden in the developing countries including Nigeria and the major causes are pregnancy related. Lack of male involvement in pregnancy related care is one of the contributing factors. Previous studies on male involvement focused on family planning services and were majorly targeted at women. This study, therefore, was carried out to assess the knowledge, perception and involvement of male partners in pregnancy related care among married men in Ibadan, Nigeria. METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted using a four-stage sampling technique to select 367 married men in an urban community in Ibadan. A semi-structured, interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to obtain information on the knowledge, perception and involvement of respondents regarding pregnancy related care. Responses to questions on knowledge of pregnancy related care were converted to a 33-point scale. Scores greater than or equal to the mean knowledge score (26.2) were categorized as good knowledge of pregnancy related care. Similarly, responses to involvement in pregnancy related care questions were converted to a 24-point scale with scores greater than or equal to the mean (15.1) classified as good involvement in pregnancy related care. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and association between qualitative variables was established using Chi-square test at p < 0.05. RESULTS: Sixty-three percent had good knowledge of pregnancy related care. Majority believed that they had roles to play in their partners’ care during pregnancy (89.9%), labor and delivery (92.9%), and in newborn care (97.5%). Overall, 56.9% had good involvement in pregnancy related care. About 20% followed their partners to antenatal care (19.6%) and postnatal (19.9%) clinics. A significantly higher proportion of respondents with good knowledge accompanied their partners for antenatal care (p = 0.008) and postnatal care clinic (p = 0.014); participated in birth preparedness (p < 0.001) and assisted with newborn care (p < 0.001). Job demands, social stigma and long waiting time at the health facilities were reasons highlighted for non-involvement in pregnancy related care. CONCLUSIONS: The study revealed gaps in knowledge and involvement in pregnancy related care. There is a need for reproductive health policy review to strongly emphasize the need for involvement of male partners in reproductive health issues including pregnancy related care.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-6988334
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2020
publisher BioMed Central
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-69883342020-01-31 Male partners’ involvement in pregnancy related care among married men in Ibadan, Nigeria Falade-Fatila, Olayinka Adebayo, Ayodeji Matthew Reprod Health Research BACKGROUND: Maternal death remains a public health burden in the developing countries including Nigeria and the major causes are pregnancy related. Lack of male involvement in pregnancy related care is one of the contributing factors. Previous studies on male involvement focused on family planning services and were majorly targeted at women. This study, therefore, was carried out to assess the knowledge, perception and involvement of male partners in pregnancy related care among married men in Ibadan, Nigeria. METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted using a four-stage sampling technique to select 367 married men in an urban community in Ibadan. A semi-structured, interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to obtain information on the knowledge, perception and involvement of respondents regarding pregnancy related care. Responses to questions on knowledge of pregnancy related care were converted to a 33-point scale. Scores greater than or equal to the mean knowledge score (26.2) were categorized as good knowledge of pregnancy related care. Similarly, responses to involvement in pregnancy related care questions were converted to a 24-point scale with scores greater than or equal to the mean (15.1) classified as good involvement in pregnancy related care. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and association between qualitative variables was established using Chi-square test at p < 0.05. RESULTS: Sixty-three percent had good knowledge of pregnancy related care. Majority believed that they had roles to play in their partners’ care during pregnancy (89.9%), labor and delivery (92.9%), and in newborn care (97.5%). Overall, 56.9% had good involvement in pregnancy related care. About 20% followed their partners to antenatal care (19.6%) and postnatal (19.9%) clinics. A significantly higher proportion of respondents with good knowledge accompanied their partners for antenatal care (p = 0.008) and postnatal care clinic (p = 0.014); participated in birth preparedness (p < 0.001) and assisted with newborn care (p < 0.001). Job demands, social stigma and long waiting time at the health facilities were reasons highlighted for non-involvement in pregnancy related care. CONCLUSIONS: The study revealed gaps in knowledge and involvement in pregnancy related care. There is a need for reproductive health policy review to strongly emphasize the need for involvement of male partners in reproductive health issues including pregnancy related care. BioMed Central 2020-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6988334/ /pubmed/31992315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-020-0850-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2020 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.
spellingShingle Research
Falade-Fatila, Olayinka
Adebayo, Ayodeji Matthew
Male partners’ involvement in pregnancy related care among married men in Ibadan, Nigeria
title Male partners’ involvement in pregnancy related care among married men in Ibadan, Nigeria
title_full Male partners’ involvement in pregnancy related care among married men in Ibadan, Nigeria
title_fullStr Male partners’ involvement in pregnancy related care among married men in Ibadan, Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Male partners’ involvement in pregnancy related care among married men in Ibadan, Nigeria
title_short Male partners’ involvement in pregnancy related care among married men in Ibadan, Nigeria
title_sort male partners’ involvement in pregnancy related care among married men in ibadan, nigeria
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31992315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-020-0850-2
work_keys_str_mv AT faladefatilaolayinka malepartnersinvolvementinpregnancyrelatedcareamongmarriedmeninibadannigeria
AT adebayoayodejimatthew malepartnersinvolvementinpregnancyrelatedcareamongmarriedmeninibadannigeria