Maternal Health Infrastructure and Interpersonal Quality of Care During Childbirth: An Examination of Facility Delivery in Malawi.

Maternal and Child Health Journal
Stephanie Kujawski

Abstract

The maternal health field has recently focused on the importance of interpersonal quality of care and continues to cite structural deficits as a contributor to poor interpersonal treatment. This hypothesis is supported by qualitative evidence. This study quantitatively tested the effect of maternal health structural inputs on interpersonal quality of care during childbirth. Analyses were conducted using data from the 2013 to 2014 Malawi Service Provision Assessment, which documented the availability and quality of health facility services and included the observation of laboring and delivering women. Maternal health structural inputs were measured using 26 facility infrastructure variables. The outcome, interpersonal quality of care, was measured as a sum score of 12 items collected during the observations. Crude and adjusted associations between maternal health structural inputs on interpersonal quality of care were assessed using linear regression with cluster robust standard errors. 345 Observations of delivering women in 174 health facilities were included in the analysis. 19.1% of women delivered in a facility with high maternal health structural inputs, and the mean interpersonal quality of care score was 8.9/12. Maternal...Continue Reading

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