Women’s Experience of Disrespect and Abuse during Institutional Delivery in Biratnagar, Nepal

Narayani Paudel Ghimire, Sunil Kumar Joshi, Pranab Dahal and Katarina Swahnberg
Additional contact information
Narayani Paudel Ghimire: Department of Nursing, Kathmandu Medical College, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal
Sunil Kumar Joshi: Head of Department, Community Medicine, Kathmandu Medical College, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal
Pranab Dahal: Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University, 39182 Kalmar, Sweden
Katarina Swahnberg: Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University, 39182 Kalmar, Sweden

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 18, 1-10

Abstract: Worldwide, a large number of women experience disrespectful and abusive behavior from care providers during childbirth. This violates the rights of women to attain respectful care. This study aimed to find out the women’s experience of disrespect and abuse during institutional delivery. A cross-sectional study was conducted in two hospitals of Morang district situated in eastern Nepal. Two hundred eighteen women from a public hospital and 109 women from a private hospital ( N = 327) with normal vaginal delivery were selected purposively for this study. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire based on the Disrespectful and Abusive Scale by Bowser and Hill. All women had experienced at least one type of disrespect and/or abuse during labor and delivery, most common being non-consented care (100%), non-dignified care (72%), and non-confidential care (66.6%), respectively. Discriminatory care and physical abuse were experienced by 32.33% and 13.23%, respectively. Ethnicity, religion, place of delivery, and numbers of living children were the main predictors of reporting disrespect and abuse. Overall, the occurrence of disrespect and abuse during institutional delivery was found to be very high.

Keywords: abuse; disrespect; institutional delivery; obstetric violence; Nepal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/18/9612/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/18/9612/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:18:p:9612-:d:633980

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().