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. 2024 Jan 18:12:20503121231225352.
doi: 10.1177/20503121231225352. eCollection 2024.

Person-centered maternity care during childbirth and associated factors among mothers who gave birth at public health institutions of Debre Markos town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2022: A cross-sectional study

Yaregal Admasu Alelign  1 , Misganaw Fikrie Melesse  2 , Endihnew Beka  2 , Addisu Alehegn Alemu  2   3 , Neway Ejigu Meskele  1 , Chernet Getnet Asres  1
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Person-centered maternity care during childbirth and associated factors among mothers who gave birth at public health institutions of Debre Markos town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2022: A cross-sectional study

Yaregal Admasu Alelign et al. SAGE Open Med. .

Abstract

Background: Person-centered maternity care is a crucial scheme for a positive childbirth experience. It enhances facility-based delivery, improves patient-provider communication, and increases women's satisfaction. However, there is limited evidence on the magnitude of person-centered care and certain variables were missed in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study assessed the magnitude of person-centered maternity care during childbirth and associated factors at health institutions of Debre Markos town, Ethiopia.

Methods: Institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted at public health institutions of Debre Markos town. Participants were enrolled using systematic random sampling technique. Data were collected through face-to-face exit interviews, cleaned, coded, and entered into Epi-Data version 3.1 then exported to SPSS version 25 for analysis. After generating simple linear regression analysis, variables with p-value ⩽ 0.25 were fitted into multivariable linear regression model and p-value < 0.05 was declared statistically significant with 95% CI for β. Finally, study findings were presented using texts, tables, and figures.

Results: In this study, 380 women participated, with a response rate of 98.19%. The respondent's mean person-centered maternity care score was 56.83 with 95% CI: (55.83, 57.83). Mean score for sub-scale was 15.08 for dignity and respect, 14.42 for communication and autonomy, and 27.33 for supportive care. Commencing antenatal care during third trimester (β = -4.86, 95% CI: -8.22, -1.49), caesarean delivery (β = -5.78, 95% CI: -7.68, -3.87), college and above educational level of women (β = 3.75, 95% CI: 1.11, 6.39), being multiparous (β = 3.69, 95% CI: 1.85, 5.55), and health center delivery (β = 6.59, 95% CI: 4.17, 9.02) were factors significantly associated with person-centered maternity care.

Conclusion: This study showed person-centered maternity care was low compared with World Health Organization standards. This informs local policymakers, district health offices, institutional healthcare administrators, and healthcare professionals of the discrepancies in achieving international standards of quality care.

Keywords: Childbirth; Debre Markos; Ethiopia; person-centered maternity care.

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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Schematic presentation of sampling procedures for person-centered maternity care at public health institutions of Debre Markos town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2022. DMHC: Debre Markos Health Center; HDHC: Hedassie Health Center; WHC: Wuseta Health Center.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Conceptual framework showing factors associated with person-centered maternity care during childbirth among mothers who gave birth at public health institutions of Debre Markos town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2022: adapted from related literatures.,,,,,
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Distribution of percentage mean score for the full PCMC scale and sub-scales from the total expected score among mothers who gave birth at public health institutions of Debre Markos town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2022.
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