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Operationalizing respectful maternity care at the healthcare provider level: a systematic scoping review

Reproductive Health, 2021
Background Ensuring the right to respectful care for maternal and newborn health, a critical dimension of quality and acceptability, requires meeting standards for Respectful Maternity Care (RMC). Absence of mistreatment does not constitute RMC. Evidence
R. R. Jolivet, Jewel Gausman, Neena Kapoor, A. Langer, Jigyasa Sharma, K. Semrau   +5 more
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Learning from a crisis: a qualitative study of the impact on mothers’ emotional wellbeing of changes to maternity care during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, using the National Maternity Survey 2020

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background Pregnancy and the postnatal period can be times of psychosocial stress and insecurity, but high quality maternity care and social support can help mothers cope with stress and feel more secure.
J. McLeish, S. Harrison, M. Quigley, F. Alderdice   +3 more
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Intrapartum respectful maternity care practices and its barriers in Eastern India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
Background: Respectful maternal care (RMC) is increasingly recognized globally as critical to improving the quality of maternity care as women deserve respectful and dignified care.
P. Yadav, M.V. Smitha, Jaison Jacob, J. Begum   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Respectful maternity care and associated factors among mothers who gave birth at public health institutions in South Gondar Zone, Northwest Ethiopia 2021

Women's Health, 2022
Introduction: Respectful maternity care is essential for improving maternal and neonatal health. Lack of respectful maternity care during childbirth services is one of the deterrents to women seeking facility-based deliveries.
W. Y. Ferede, T. Gudayu, Dereje Nibret Gessesse, B. Erega   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Women’s experience and satisfaction with midwife-led maternity care: a cross-sectional survey in China

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021
Background Low risk pregnancy ending in a vaginal birth is best served and guided by a midwife. Utilizing a midwife in such cases offers many emotional and economic advantages and does not increase the risks for mother or neonate.
Y. Liu, Tengteng Li, Nafei Guo, Hui Jiang, Yuehong Li, Chenying Xu, Xiao Yao   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Harming one to benefit another: The paradox of autonomy and consent in maternity care.

Bioethics, 2021
This paper critically analyses 'the paradox of autonomy and consent in maternity care'. It argues that maternity care has certain features that increase the need for explicit attention to, and respect for, both autonomy and rigorous informed consent ...
Elselijn Kingma
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Maternal tea consumption and the risk of preterm delivery in urban China: a birth cohort study

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Studies investigating the relationship between maternal tea drinking and risk of preterm birth have reached inconsistent results. Methods The present study analyzed data from a birth cohort study including 10,179 women who delivered a ...
Lei Huang, Catherine Lerro, Tao Yang, Jing Li, Jie Qiu, Weitao Qiu, Xiaochun He, Hongmei Cui, Ling Lv, Ruifeng Xu, Xiaoying Xu, Huang Huang, Qing Liu, Yawei Zhang   +13 more
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Pre-pregnancy BMI, gestational weight gain and risk of preeclampsia: a birth cohort study in Lanzhou, China

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background To evaluate the independent and joint effects of maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and gestational weight gain (GWG) on the risk of preeclampsia and its subtypes. Methods A birth cohort study was conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Lanzhou, China.
Yawen Shao, Jie Qiu, Huang Huang, Baohong Mao, Wei Dai, Xiaochun He, Hongmei Cui, Xiaojuan Lin, Ling Lv, Dennis Wang, Zhongfeng Tang, Sijuan Xu, Nan Zhao, Min Zhou, Xiaoying Xu, Weitao Qiu, Qing Liu, Yawei Zhang   +17 more
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Rural maternity care: Can we learn from Wal-Mart? [PDF]

, 2010
In many countries rural maternity care is under threat. Consequently rural pregnant women will have to travel further to attend larger maternity units to receive care and deliver their babies.
Pitchforth, Emma, van Teijlingen, Edwin
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Unveiling respectful maternity care as a way to address global inequities in maternal health

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Correspondence to Anteneh Asefa; antex98@ yahoo. com © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Reuse permitted under CC BYNC. No commercial reuse. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
A. Asefa
semanticscholar   +1 more source