Home birth without skilled attendants despite millennium villages project intervention in Ghana: insight from a survey of women’s perceptions of skilled obstetric care

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dc.contributor.authorNakua Kweku Emmanuel
dc.contributor.authorSevugu Thomas Justice
dc.contributor.authorOwusu-Dabo Ellis
dc.contributor.authorDzomeku Millicent Veronica
dc.contributor.authorOtupiri Easmon
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-11T13:27:01Z
dc.date.available2023-12-11T13:27:01Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionThis article is published by BioMed Central.
dc.description.abstractBackground: Skilled birth attendance from a trained health professional during labour and delivery can prevent up to 75 % of maternal deaths. However, in low- and middle-income rural communities, lack of basic medical infrastructure and limited number of skilled birth attendants are significant barriers to timely obstetric care. Through analysis of self-reported data, this study aimed to assess the effect of an intervention addressing barriers in access to skilled obstetric care and identified factors associated with the use of unskilled birth attendants during delivery in a rural district of Ghana. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted from June to August 2012 in the Amansie West District of Ghana among women of reproductive age. Multi-stage, random, and population proportional techniques were used to sample 50 communities and 400 women for data collection. Weighted multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors associated with place of delivery. Results: A total of 391 mothers had attended an antenatal care clinic at least once for their most recent birth; 42.3 % of them had unskilled deliveries. Reasons reported for the use of unskilled birth attendants during delivery were: insults from health workers (23.5 %), unavailability of transport (21.9 %), and confidence in traditional birth attendants (17.9 %); only 7.4 % reported to have had sudden labour. Other factors associated with the use of unskilled birth attendants during delivery included: lack of partner involvement aOR = 0.03 (95 % CI; 0.01, 0.06), lack of birth preparedness aOR = 0.05 (95 % CI; 0.02, 0.13) and lack of knowledge of the benefits of skilled delivery aOR = 0.37 (95 % CI; 0.11, 1.20). Conclusions: This study demonstrated the importance of provider-client relationship and cultural sensitivity in the efforts to improve skilled obstetric care uptake among rural women in Ghana
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dc.identifier.citationNakua et al. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2015) 15:243 DOI 10.1186/s12884-015-0674-1
dc.identifier.uri10.1186/s12884-015-0674-1
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.knust.edu.gh/handle/123456789/14768
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBioMed Central
dc.titleHome birth without skilled attendants despite millennium villages project intervention in Ghana: insight from a survey of women’s perceptions of skilled obstetric care
dc.typeArticle
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