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Perceptions on respectful maternity care in Sri Lanka: Study protocol for a mixed-methods study of patients and providers

BACKGROUND: Over the past few decades, interest in providing and measuring Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) has increased markedly. Sri Lanka is reportedly shown to have better maternal health statistics and studies on quality improvement are lacking in this unique population. We aim to describe heal...

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Autores principales: Patabendige, Malitha, Agampodi, Suneth Buddhika, Jayawardane, Asanka, Wickramasooriya, Denagamage Jayamini, Agampodi, Thilini Chanchala
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33951090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250920
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author Patabendige, Malitha
Agampodi, Suneth Buddhika
Jayawardane, Asanka
Wickramasooriya, Denagamage Jayamini
Agampodi, Thilini Chanchala
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Agampodi, Suneth Buddhika
Jayawardane, Asanka
Wickramasooriya, Denagamage Jayamini
Agampodi, Thilini Chanchala
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description BACKGROUND: Over the past few decades, interest in providing and measuring Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) has increased markedly. Sri Lanka is reportedly shown to have better maternal health statistics and studies on quality improvement are lacking in this unique population. We aim to describe healthcare providers’ perceptions and women’s expectations, perceptions and their gaps in service provision regarding RMC in Sri Lanka. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study with a mixed-methods approach comprising of qualitative component followed by a quantitative component will be conducted in Castle Street Hospital for Women (CSHW) and De Soysa Hospital for Women (DSHW), Colombo, Sri Lanka. Healthcare providers (HCP- doctors, nurses and midwives) and vaginally delivered postnatal women (in postnatal wards and postnatal well-baby clinics) will be recruited through convenience sampling. In-depth interviews will be conducted with each of the four categories. Thematic analysis will be adopted to analyze qualitative data and the findings will further be used to improve the quantitative phase questionnaires. Self-administered questionnaire will be administered to a 378 vaginally delivered postnatal women [quota sampling across ten wards], exploring demographic details, and maternal opinion on various aspects of RMC. Locally validated Women’s Perceptions of RMC tool (WP-RMC) will also be used to measure the level of RMC among these postnatal women along with the questionnaire 01. Qualitative findings will be used for cognitive validation of the WP-RMC into the Sri Lankan setting. DISCUSSION: This study will explore HCP’s and women’s expectations, perceptions and their gaps in service provision regarding RMC in two maternity hospitals in Sri Lanka. Assessment of the quality of care with regards to RMC have not been reported previously in this setting.
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spelling pubmed-80990932021-05-17 Perceptions on respectful maternity care in Sri Lanka: Study protocol for a mixed-methods study of patients and providers Patabendige, Malitha Agampodi, Suneth Buddhika Jayawardane, Asanka Wickramasooriya, Denagamage Jayamini Agampodi, Thilini Chanchala PLoS One Registered Report Protocol BACKGROUND: Over the past few decades, interest in providing and measuring Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) has increased markedly. Sri Lanka is reportedly shown to have better maternal health statistics and studies on quality improvement are lacking in this unique population. We aim to describe healthcare providers’ perceptions and women’s expectations, perceptions and their gaps in service provision regarding RMC in Sri Lanka. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study with a mixed-methods approach comprising of qualitative component followed by a quantitative component will be conducted in Castle Street Hospital for Women (CSHW) and De Soysa Hospital for Women (DSHW), Colombo, Sri Lanka. Healthcare providers (HCP- doctors, nurses and midwives) and vaginally delivered postnatal women (in postnatal wards and postnatal well-baby clinics) will be recruited through convenience sampling. In-depth interviews will be conducted with each of the four categories. Thematic analysis will be adopted to analyze qualitative data and the findings will further be used to improve the quantitative phase questionnaires. Self-administered questionnaire will be administered to a 378 vaginally delivered postnatal women [quota sampling across ten wards], exploring demographic details, and maternal opinion on various aspects of RMC. Locally validated Women’s Perceptions of RMC tool (WP-RMC) will also be used to measure the level of RMC among these postnatal women along with the questionnaire 01. Qualitative findings will be used for cognitive validation of the WP-RMC into the Sri Lankan setting. DISCUSSION: This study will explore HCP’s and women’s expectations, perceptions and their gaps in service provision regarding RMC in two maternity hospitals in Sri Lanka. Assessment of the quality of care with regards to RMC have not been reported previously in this setting. Public Library of Science 2021-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8099093/ /pubmed/33951090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250920 Text en © 2021 Patabendige et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Perceptions on respectful maternity care in Sri Lanka: Study protocol for a mixed-methods study of patients and providers
title Perceptions on respectful maternity care in Sri Lanka: Study protocol for a mixed-methods study of patients and providers
title_full Perceptions on respectful maternity care in Sri Lanka: Study protocol for a mixed-methods study of patients and providers
title_fullStr Perceptions on respectful maternity care in Sri Lanka: Study protocol for a mixed-methods study of patients and providers
title_full_unstemmed Perceptions on respectful maternity care in Sri Lanka: Study protocol for a mixed-methods study of patients and providers
title_short Perceptions on respectful maternity care in Sri Lanka: Study protocol for a mixed-methods study of patients and providers
title_sort perceptions on respectful maternity care in sri lanka: study protocol for a mixed-methods study of patients and providers
topic Registered Report Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33951090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250920
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