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Is quality of care a key predictor of perinatal health care utilization and patient satisfaction in Malawi?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, May 2017
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Title
Is quality of care a key predictor of perinatal health care utilization and patient satisfaction in Malawi?
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, May 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12884-017-1331-7
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Andreea A. Creanga, Sara Gullo, Anne K. Sebert Kuhlmann, Thumbiko W. Msiska, Christine Galavotti

Abstract

The Malawi government encourages early antenatal care, delivery in health facilities, and timely postnatal care. Efforts to sustain or increase current levels of perinatal service utilization may not achieve desired gains if the quality of care provided is neglected. This study examined predictors of perinatal service utilization and patients' satisfaction with these services with a focus on quality of care. We used baseline, two-stage cluster sampling household survey data collected between November and December, 2012 before implementation of CARE's Community Score Card© intervention in Ntcheu district, Malawi. Women with a birth during the last year (N = 1301) were asked about seeking: 1) family planning, 2) antenatal, 3) delivery, and 4) postnatal care; the quality of care received; and their overall satisfaction with the care received. Specific quality of care items were assessed for each type of service, and up to five such items per type of service were used in analyses. Separate logistic regression models were fitted to examine predictors of family planning, antenatal, delivery, and postnatal service utilization and of complete satisfaction with each of these services; all models were adjusted for women's socio-demographic characteristics, perceptions of the closest facility to their homes, service use indicators, and quality of care items. We found higher levels of perinatal service use than previously documented in Malawi (baseline antenatal care 99.4%; skilled birth attendance 97.3%; postnatal care 77.5%; current family planning use 52.8%). Almost 73% of quality of perinatal care items assessed were favorably reported by > 90% of women. Women reported high overall satisfaction (≥85%) with all types of services examined, higher for antenatal and postnatal care than for family planning and delivery care. We found significant associations between perceived and actual quality of care and both women's use and satisfaction with the perinatal health services received. Quality of care is a key predictor of perinatal health service utilization and complete patient satisfaction with such services in Malawi. The current heightened attention toward perinatal health services and outcomes should be coupled with efforts to improve the actual quality of care offered to women in this country.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 140 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 26 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 8%
Researcher 10 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 7%
Student > Bachelor 9 6%
Other 25 18%
Unknown 49 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 30 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 30 21%
Social Sciences 15 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 4%
Arts and Humanities 2 1%
Other 7 5%
Unknown 51 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 October 2017.
All research outputs
#6,291,473
of 22,973,051 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#1,743
of 4,225 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#100,330
of 313,704 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#39
of 82 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,973,051 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,225 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 58% of its peers.
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