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Lavender, Tina, Bedwell, Carol, Kasengele, Chowa Tembo, Kimaro, Debora, Kuzenza, Flora, Lyangenda, Kutemba, Mills, Tracey 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-7999, Nsemwa, Livuka, Shayo, Happiness, Tuwele, Khuzuet, Wakasiaka, Sabina and Laisser, Rose
(2021)
'Respectful care an added extra: a grounded theory study exploring intrapartum experiences in Zambia and Tanzania'. BMJ Global Health, Vol 6, Issue 4, e004725.
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Abstract
Background
Quality of maternal and newborn care is integral to positive clinical, social and psychological outcomes. Respectful care is an important component of this but is suboptimum in many low-income settings. A renewed energy among health professionals and academics is driving an international agenda to eradicate disrespectful health facility care around the globe. However, few studies have explored respectful care from different vantage points.
Methods
We used Strauss and Corbin’s grounded theory methodology to explore intrapartum experiences in Tanzania and Zambia. In-depth interviews were conducted with 98 participants (48 women, 18 partners, 21 health-providers and 11 key stakeholders), resulting in data saturation. Analysis involved constant comparison, comprising three stages of coding: open, axial and selective. The process involved application of memos, reflexivity and positionality.
Results
Findings demonstrated that direct and indirect social discrimination led to inequity of care. Health-providers
were believed to display manipulative behaviours to orchestrate situations for their own or the woman’s benefit, and were often caring against the odds, in challenging environments. Emergent categories were related to the core category: respectful care, an
added extra, which reflects the notion that women did not
always expect or receive respectful care, and tolerated poor experiences to obtain services believed to benefit them or their babies. Respectful care was not seen as a component of good quality care, but a luxury that only some receive.
Conclusion
Both quality of care and respectful care were valued but were not viewed as mutually inclusive. Good quality treatment (transactional care) was often juxtaposed with disrespectful care; with relational care having a lower status among women and healthcare providers. To readdress the balance, respectful care should be a predominant theme in training programmes, policies and audits. Women’s and health-provider voices are pivotal to
the development of such interventions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 310 Maternal welfare WA Public Health > Health Problems of Special Population Groups > WA 395 Health in developing countries WQ Obstetrics > Childbirth. Prenatal Care > WQ 160 Midwifery WS Pediatrics > By Age Groups > WS 420 Newborn infants. Neonatology |
| Faculty: Department: | Clinical Sciences & International Health > International Public Health Department |
| Digital Object Identifer (DOI): | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004725 |
| Depositing User: | Rachel Dominguez |
| Date Deposited: | 05 May 2021 08:50 |
| Last Modified: | 05 May 2021 08:50 |
| URI: | https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/17718 |
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