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Midwives’ knowledge and practice of Respectful Maternity Care: a survey from Iran

BACKGROUND: In the past decade, countries worldwide aimed to evaluate the quality of childbirth care and reduce the high rates of disrespect and abuse during childbirth. Few studies have attempted to identify providers’ characteristics associated with respectful maternity care quantitatively. This s...

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Autores principales: Moridi, Maryam, Pazandeh, Farzaneh, Potrata, Barbara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9535863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36199103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-05065-4
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Pazandeh, Farzaneh
Potrata, Barbara
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description BACKGROUND: In the past decade, countries worldwide aimed to evaluate the quality of childbirth care and reduce the high rates of disrespect and abuse during childbirth. Few studies have attempted to identify providers’ characteristics associated with respectful maternity care quantitatively. This study aims to evaluate midwives’ knowledge and practice of respectful maternity care (RMC). METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out in 15 teaching and non-teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. The hospitals were selected by using a cluster sampling design. Midwives’ Knowledge and Practice of Respectful Maternity Care scale (MKP-RMC) was administered to 250 midwives working in maternity units at study hospitals. The data were analysed by statistics package for social science (SPSS, version 21.0, Chicago, IL). RESULTS: Findings demonstrated that the mean score for knowledge and practice of midwives were 20.96 ± 3.54 and 101.64 ± 11.49, respectively. Also, in both knowledge and practice scales, midwives had the highest score in “providing safe care’ domain and the lowest score in “preventing mistreatment” domain. CONCLUSION: Our findings showed that for Iranian midwives, providing care to preserve mothers’ and their babies’ wellbeing is more critical than preventing maternal mistreatment, resulting from the importance of the care provision in the Iranian healthcare system. Promoting midwives’ knowledge and practice through developing a tailored educational program to prevent mistreatment and providing emotional support alongside physical care is recommended.
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spelling pubmed-95358632022-10-07 Midwives’ knowledge and practice of Respectful Maternity Care: a survey from Iran Moridi, Maryam Pazandeh, Farzaneh Potrata, Barbara BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research BACKGROUND: In the past decade, countries worldwide aimed to evaluate the quality of childbirth care and reduce the high rates of disrespect and abuse during childbirth. Few studies have attempted to identify providers’ characteristics associated with respectful maternity care quantitatively. This study aims to evaluate midwives’ knowledge and practice of respectful maternity care (RMC). METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out in 15 teaching and non-teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. The hospitals were selected by using a cluster sampling design. Midwives’ Knowledge and Practice of Respectful Maternity Care scale (MKP-RMC) was administered to 250 midwives working in maternity units at study hospitals. The data were analysed by statistics package for social science (SPSS, version 21.0, Chicago, IL). RESULTS: Findings demonstrated that the mean score for knowledge and practice of midwives were 20.96 ± 3.54 and 101.64 ± 11.49, respectively. Also, in both knowledge and practice scales, midwives had the highest score in “providing safe care’ domain and the lowest score in “preventing mistreatment” domain. CONCLUSION: Our findings showed that for Iranian midwives, providing care to preserve mothers’ and their babies’ wellbeing is more critical than preventing maternal mistreatment, resulting from the importance of the care provision in the Iranian healthcare system. Promoting midwives’ knowledge and practice through developing a tailored educational program to prevent mistreatment and providing emotional support alongside physical care is recommended. BioMed Central 2022-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9535863/ /pubmed/36199103 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-05065-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_short Midwives’ knowledge and practice of Respectful Maternity Care: a survey from Iran
title_sort midwives’ knowledge and practice of respectful maternity care: a survey from iran
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9535863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36199103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-05065-4
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