Skapare/primärforskare
Marie Berg - Göteborgs universitet
Beskrivning
Objective
Being pregnant and giving birth is a pivotal life event and one that a woman ordinarily remembers for most of her life. A negative childbirth experience can affect a woman’s health well beyond the episode of the labour and birth itself. This study explored the meaning of a bad childbirth as experienced by women who have given birth in Rwanda.
Methods
In a cross-sectional household study conducted in Northern Province and in Kigali City, the capital of Rwanda, a structured questionnaire was answered by women who had given birth 1 to 13 months earlier. One question answered by 898 women asked them to rate their overall experience of childbirth from 0 (very bad) to 10 (very good). Of these, 28 women (3.1%) rating the childbirth experience as bad (< 4) were contacted for individual interviews. Seventeen of these women accepted to participate in individual in-depth interviews. The texts were analysed with a reflective lifeworld approach.
Results
The essential meaning of a “bad” childbirth experience was that the women had been exposed to disrespectful care, constituted by neglect, v
Språk
Engelska
Forskningshuvudman
Ansvarig institution/enhet
Institutionen för medicin
Medverkande
Judith Mukamurigo - Göteborgs universitet
Analysenhet
Tidsdimension
Urvalsmetod
Geografisk utbredning
Geografisk plats: Rwanda
Geografisk beskrivning: Kigali City and Northerm Province
Nyckelord
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Version 1.0
https://doi.org/10.5878/002900
Citering
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Dataformat / datastruktur
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Skapare/primärforskare
Marie Berg - Göteborgs universitet
Tidsperiod(er) som undersökts
2014-01-05 – 2015-02-28