Mothers' Respect/Mistreatment During Pregnancy & Childbirth

NCT ID: NCT06123247

Last Updated: 2023-11-21

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

400 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-06-20

Study Completion Date

2025-04-30

Brief Summary

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Pregnancy and childbirth are important events in a woman's and family's life and a time of great vulnerability for every country and culture on earth. Although the concept of "safe motherhood" is often limited to physical safety, the birth of a child is also an important life milestone for women and their familiesin our study for ssessing the degree of respectful maternity care, or mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in Assiut Governorate, Egypt and Exploring the factors associated with respectful maternity care and mistreatment among Egyptian women in Assiut governorate in rural and urban areas .

Detailed Description

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A woman's experience with childbirth care is an important factor in her future decisions about whether to receive health care through a health care facility. Women's negative encounters with health workers long-term injury and emotional trauma can result during childbirth. Every woman has several rights. They include the following rights: 1- Freedom from harm and abuse, 2- Information, informed consent and refusal, and respect for women's choices and preferences, including companion during childbirth, 3- Privacy and confidentiality 4) Respectful and dignified treatment 5 - Equality, non-discrimination and appropriate care 6- Healthcare and attainable high standards of health and 7- Freedom, autonomy, self-determination and non-coercion. Reported forms of disrespect and abuse fell into seven categories: physical abuse, non-consensual care, non-confidential care, indecent care, discrimination based on patient characteristics, abandonment of care, and incarceration in institutions.. RMC focuses on eliminating unhealthy and abusive behaviors by healthcare providers and associated personnel, and providing a sensitive and encouraging work environment to help women feel satisfied during childbirth.To measure women's experience of respectful maternity care, vedam et la developed Mothers on Respect Index (MORi) assesses the nature of patient-provider interactions and their impact on human feelings of respect during obstetric care .The mistreatment index (MIST index), which is an indicator of abuse consistent with the seven dimensions ( physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, stigma and discrimination. Failure to meet professional standards of care, poor rapport during interactions with Providors, and the poor state and limitations of the healthcare system )

Conditions

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Childbirth Problems Pregnancy Related

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Women who have delivered (either vaginally or cesarean) in the past 8 weeks.

Exclusion Criteria

* Women who had complicated childbirth, or stillbirth/neonatal death during their Last delivery will be excluded. In addition, women with known psychiatric illness . These women will be excluded . women who refuse to participate in the study will be excluded.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

50 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Assiut University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Fatma Ahmed Abdelrahman Mohamed

doctor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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mahmoud zakhira, professor

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

obstetrics &gynacology depatmen ,assiut university

moustfa alsonbaty, doctorate

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

obstetrics & gynacology depatmen assiut university

Locations

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Assiut University

Asyut, , Egypt

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Egypt

Central Contacts

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fatma mohamed

Role: CONTACT

00201279969493

Essam Rashad, professor

Role: CONTACT

00201006607801

Facility Contacts

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mahmoud abdelaleem, doctorate

Role: primary

+201018880201

References

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Housseine N, Rijken MJ, Punt MC, Meguid T, Franx A, van der Graaf R, Browne JL. Mistreatment during childbirth. Lancet. 2020 Sep 19;396(10254):816-817. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31556-7. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32950087 (View on PubMed)

Vogel JP, Bohren MA, Tuncalp Ӧ, Oladapo OT, Gulmezoglu AM. Promoting respect and preventing mistreatment during childbirth. BJOG. 2016 Apr;123(5):671-4. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.13750. Epub 2015 Dec 1. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 26628382 (View on PubMed)

Galle A, Manaharlal H, Cumbane E, Picardo J, Griffin S, Osman N, Roelens K, Degomme O. Disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth in southern Mozambique: a cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2019 Oct 22;19(1):369. doi: 10.1186/s12884-019-2532-z.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 31640603 (View on PubMed)

Savage V, Castro A. Measuring mistreatment of women during childbirth: a review of terminology and methodological approaches. Reprod Health. 2017 Oct 26;14(1):138. doi: 10.1186/s12978-017-0403-5.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29073914 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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04-2023-200266

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id