The meaning of a bad childbirth experience

SND-ID: SND 1027

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

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Språk

Engelska

Huvudman, medverkande och finansiering

Forskningshuvudman

Göteborgs universitet

Ansvarig institution/enhet

Institutionen för medicin

Medverkande

Judith Mukamurigo - Göteborgs universitet

Skyddsvärde och etikprövning
Metod och tidsperiod

Analysenhet

Tidsdimension

Urvalsmetod

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
Geografisk täckning

Geografisk utbredning

Geografisk plats: Rwanda

Geografisk beskrivning: Kigali City and Northerm Province

Publikationer
Dataset
The meaning of a bad childbirth experience

Version 1.0

Citering

Marie Berg. Göteborgs universitet (2017). The meaning of a bad childbirth experience. Svensk nationell datatjänst. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002900

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Dataformat / datastruktur

Text

Skapare/primärforskare

Marie Berg - Göteborgs universitet

Tidsperiod(er) som undersökts

2014-01-05 – 2015-02-28

Datainsamling

  • Insamlingsmetod: Intervju
  • Tidsperiod(er) för datainsamling: 2015-01-05–2015-02-28
  • Datakälla: Befolkningsgrupp
Publicerad: 2017-06-21
Senast uppdaterad: 2020-01-27