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The role of distance and transportation in decision making to seek emergency obstetric care among women of reproductive age in south–South Nigeria: A mixed methods study

OBJECTIVE: To explore the role of transportation in seeking emergency obstetric care among women with obstetric complications. METHODS: A mixed‐methods design. The study population comprised women aged 15–49 years who had experience direct obstetric complications and were attending the health facili...

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Autores principales: Ekpenyong, Mandu S., Matheson, David, Serrant, Laura
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9545747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35044678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.14103
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author Ekpenyong, Mandu S.
Matheson, David
Serrant, Laura
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description OBJECTIVE: To explore the role of transportation in seeking emergency obstetric care among women with obstetric complications. METHODS: A mixed‐methods design. The study population comprised women aged 15–49 years who had experience direct obstetric complications and were attending the health facility for care at the time of this study. A total of 318 women completed the questionnaires, and in‐depth interviews were held for six women who were purposively selected from the 318 respondents. Both questionnaire and semi‐structured interviews were used in collecting data for this study. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS using both inferential and bivariate analysis, and a qualitative content analysis was carried out on the qualitative data. RESULTS: Of the 318 respondents, 290 (91.2%) accessed health facilities by motorized transport with 28 (8.8%) on foot. Mode of transportation was related to regularity at prenatal care (P = 0.003), with those who came on foot being regular attenders compared with those that came on motorized transport. CONCLUSION: An efficient and suitable transport system as well as distance are key factors influencing women’s role in decision making to seek care.
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spelling pubmed-95457472022-10-14 The role of distance and transportation in decision making to seek emergency obstetric care among women of reproductive age in south–South Nigeria: A mixed methods study Ekpenyong, Mandu S. Matheson, David Serrant, Laura Int J Gynaecol Obstet Clinical Articles OBJECTIVE: To explore the role of transportation in seeking emergency obstetric care among women with obstetric complications. METHODS: A mixed‐methods design. The study population comprised women aged 15–49 years who had experience direct obstetric complications and were attending the health facility for care at the time of this study. A total of 318 women completed the questionnaires, and in‐depth interviews were held for six women who were purposively selected from the 318 respondents. Both questionnaire and semi‐structured interviews were used in collecting data for this study. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS using both inferential and bivariate analysis, and a qualitative content analysis was carried out on the qualitative data. RESULTS: Of the 318 respondents, 290 (91.2%) accessed health facilities by motorized transport with 28 (8.8%) on foot. Mode of transportation was related to regularity at prenatal care (P = 0.003), with those who came on foot being regular attenders compared with those that came on motorized transport. CONCLUSION: An efficient and suitable transport system as well as distance are key factors influencing women’s role in decision making to seek care. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-02-15 2022-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9545747/ /pubmed/35044678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.14103 Text en © 2022 The Authors. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The role of distance and transportation in decision making to seek emergency obstetric care among women of reproductive age in south–South Nigeria: A mixed methods study
title The role of distance and transportation in decision making to seek emergency obstetric care among women of reproductive age in south–South Nigeria: A mixed methods study
title_full The role of distance and transportation in decision making to seek emergency obstetric care among women of reproductive age in south–South Nigeria: A mixed methods study
title_fullStr The role of distance and transportation in decision making to seek emergency obstetric care among women of reproductive age in south–South Nigeria: A mixed methods study
title_full_unstemmed The role of distance and transportation in decision making to seek emergency obstetric care among women of reproductive age in south–South Nigeria: A mixed methods study
title_short The role of distance and transportation in decision making to seek emergency obstetric care among women of reproductive age in south–South Nigeria: A mixed methods study
title_sort role of distance and transportation in decision making to seek emergency obstetric care among women of reproductive age in south–south nigeria: a mixed methods study
topic Clinical Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9545747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35044678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.14103
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