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Why Muslim women in Northern Ghana do not use skilled maternal healthcare services at health facilities: a qualitative study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, April 2015
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Title
Why Muslim women in Northern Ghana do not use skilled maternal healthcare services at health facilities: a qualitative study
Published in
BMC Public Health, April 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12914-015-0048-9
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John Kuumuori Ganle

Abstract

Muslim women are one sub-population in Ghana among whom the rate of skilled maternal health services accessibility and utilisation is very low. However, there are no studies in Ghana that explore the maternity needs and care experiences of Muslim women, and why they do not utilise maternal healthcare services at health facilities. The purpose of this paper is to explore the maternity healthcare needs and care experiences of Muslim women and the barriers to accessing and using maternal health services. Qualitative research was conducted with 94 Muslim women in three communities in northern Ghana between November 2011 and May 2012. Data were analysed using the Attride-Stirling's thematic network analysis framework. Findings suggest that although Muslim women do want to receive skilled care in a health facility, they often experience difficulties with accessing and using such services. These difficulties were often conditioned by a religious obligation to maintain bodily sanctity through modest dressing and the avoidance of unlawful bodily exposure or contact with certain people including male or alien caregivers. Other related access barriers include lack of privacy, healthcare providers' insensitivity and lack of knowledge about Muslim women's religious and cultural practices, and health information that lacked the cultural and religious specificity to meet Muslim women's maternity care needs. Maternal healthcare services designed to meet the needs of mainstream non-Muslim Ghanaian women might lack the flexibility and responsiveness to meet the unique maternity care needs of Muslim women. Recommendations for change include cultural competence training for healthcare providers and cultural/religious matching to meet Muslim women's care needs and to enhance their care experience.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Unknown 236 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 49 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 11%
Student > Bachelor 25 11%
Researcher 22 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 6%
Other 47 20%
Unknown 55 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 49 21%
Social Sciences 43 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 33 14%
Psychology 8 3%
Arts and Humanities 8 3%
Other 32 13%
Unknown 65 27%
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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 13 June 2015.
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#7,148,094
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,906
of 17,508 outputs
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#79,366
of 279,295 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#116
of 253 outputs
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