Women's Lives and Birth Experiences Are Important! Evaluation of Women's Perceptions of Respectful Maternal Care: The Mother-Friendly Hospital Difference

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI:10.1111/jep.14316

Elif Dağlı, Feyza Aktaş Reyhan, Betül Uncu

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Abstract

Aim

The aim of this study is to determine women's perceptions of respectful maternity care, the effect of giving birth in a mother-friendly hospital on this perception and other factors affecting this perception.

Background

The philosophy of a mother-friendly hospital includes respectful maternity care. Few quantitative studies have been conducted in Turkey to assess the prevalence of respectful maternity care during childbirth and none have examined the difference between respectful maternity care in mother-friendly and nonmother-friendly hospitals.

Methods

This descriptive and comparative study was conducted between December 2023 and September 2024 with 319 primiparous women who applied to the Obstetrics and Gynecology Outpatient Clinic of a mother-friendly and a nonmother-friendly hospital in Turkey for postpartum follow-up. The data were collected face-to-face using the Descriptive Characteristics Form and Women's Perception of Respectful Maternity Care Scale. For data analysis, χ² and independent samples t test methods were used in SPSS 26 program.

Results

In the study, a significant difference was obtained between the Perception of Respectful Maternity Care Scale scores of women according to the type of hospital where the birth was performed and the level of education (p < 0.05). The mean scale scores of women who gave birth in a mother-friendly hospital and whose educational level was secondary education and above were higher than other women (p < 0.05). There was no significant difference between the scale scores of women according to the variables of age, employment status, place of residence, number of pregnancies and the last pregnancy being planned (p > 0.05).

Conclusions and Implications for Practice

It was determined that women's perception of respectful maternity care was highly positive, and the factors affecting this perception were delivery in a mother-friendly hospital and educational level. The current study may contribute to the development of policies for the dissemination of mother-friendly practices and the provision of respectful birth services, and may also support efforts to improve the quality of care.

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妇女的生活和分娩经历很重要！妇女对恭敬母性照护的认知评价：亲母医院的差异。

目的：本研究的目的是确定妇女对尊重产妇护理的看法，在母亲友好型医院分娩对这种看法的影响以及影响这种看法的其他因素。背景：母亲友好型医院的理念包括尊重产妇护理。土耳其很少进行定量研究，以评估分娩期间尊重产妇护理的普遍程度，也没有研究尊重产妇护理在母亲友好型医院和非母亲友好型医院之间的差异。方法：对2023年12月至2024年9月在土耳其一家母婴友好医院和一家非母婴友好医院的妇产科门诊进行产后随访的319名初产妇进行描述性和对比性研究。使用描述性特征表和妇女对尊重性产妇护理的感知量表面对面收集数据。数据分析采用SPSS 26软件χ2和独立样本t检验方法。结果：在本研究中，不同医院类型和受教育程度的产妇在尊重产妇护理感知量表得分上有显著差异（p < 0.05）。结论和对实践的影响：确定妇女对尊重产妇护理的看法是高度积极的，影响这种看法的因素是在母亲友好的医院分娩和教育水平。目前的研究可能有助于制定政策，传播对母亲友好的做法和提供尊重分娩的服务，也可能支持提高护理质量的努力。

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Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 医学-卫生保健

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4.80

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4.20%

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143

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3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.