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When the baby remains there for a long time, it is going to die so you have to hit her small for the baby to come out": justification of disrespectful and abusive care during childbirth among midwifery students in Ghana
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Despite global attention, high levels of maternal mortality continue to plague many low- and middle-income settings. One important way to improve the care of women in labour is to increase the proportion of women who deliver in a health facility. However, due to poor quality of care, including being disrespected and abused, women are reluctant to come to facilities for delivery care. The current study sought to examine disrespectful and abusive treatment towards labouring women from the perspective of midwifery students who were within months of graduation. Key Messages •Midwifery students in Ghana’s public midwifery schools report witnessing and participating in many forms of disrespect and abuse during deliveries as part of their education. While they are clear as to why respectful care is important and necessary, they are able to justify and explain reasons for disrespectful and abusive care. This poor treatment of labouring women was explicitly and tacitly supported by these students’ teachers and preceptors. •All study materials and methods were reviewed and approved by the Ghana Health Service Ethical Review Committee, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Committee on Publication and Human Ethics, and the University of Michigan Institutional Review Board. •This research was made possible through a grant from the African Studies Center, University of Michigan. For this study, we conducted focus groups with final year midwifery students at 15 public midw…
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“The students acknowledeged the importance of quality care but also justified the reasons for abusive treatment by SBAs on labouring women to be mainly due to lack of cooperation from the women during labor which could result in detrimental birth outcomes.”
From A scoping review of the residual barriers to skilled birth attendance in Ghana: A conceptual framework and a fish bone analysis (2024) · cites this paper as [22]
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“Besides the problem of incompetence, unacceptable attitudes of SBAs are also widely reported barriers to skilled delivery.”
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“Many studies conducted in Ghana, highlight the shortage of SBAs as an eminent problem of the health system [15,18,19,22,25–27].”
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“Some of which are: unofficial demands from pregnant women, for example soap and other disinfectants after delivery [7,15,16,19,20,22,23,31–36] and abusive behaviors [7,23,37].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rominski, S. D., Lori, J., Nakua, E., Dzomeku, V., & Moyer, C. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (GH)
- Corresponding author
- Rominski, Sarah D
- Venue
- Health Policy and Planning
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2016-09-04
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- czw114
- ISSN
- 0268-1080 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-2237
- OpenAlex
- W2513673733
- Cited by
- 86
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5
- FWCI
- 5.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Health Policy and Planning (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Global Maternal and Child Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Obstetrics and Gynecology › Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Maternal and fetal healthcare
- Keywords
- disrespect and abuse in childbirth, respectful maternity care, midwifery students, midwifery education, quality of care, maternal mortality, Ghana, low- and middle-income settings, patient-centered care, midwifery schools
- MeSH terms
- Attitude of Health Personnel, Female, Patient Care, Ghana, Humans, Midwifery, Pregnancy, Surveys and Questionnaires, Students, Health Occupations, Violence, Focus Groups, Delivery, Obstetric
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