Midwifery centers as enabled environments for midwifery: A quasi experimental design assessing women’s birth experiences in three models of care in Bangladesh, before and during covid

Jennifer Rebecca Stevens, Lora L Sabin, Monica A Onyango, Malabika Sarker and Eugene Declercq

PLOS ONE, 2022, vol. 17, issue 12, 1-14

Abstract: Background: The midwifery model of care is a human rights-based approach (HRBA) that is unique and appropriate for the majority of healthy pregnant women, yet full expression may be limited within the medical model. Midwifery centers are facilities designed specifically to enable the practice of midwifery. In high resource countries, they have been shown to be cost effective, evidence-based, avoid over medicalization, and provide safe, efficient and satisfying care. Methods: A quasi-experimental design was used to assess the impact of three models of care on women’s experiences of respect, and trust in maternity care provision, both before and during the pandemic in Bangladesh, as well as their fear and knowledge around COVID-19, during the pandemic. The models were: “fully enabled midwifery” (“FEM”) in freestanding midwifery centers; “midwifery and medicine” (“MAM”) in medical facilities with midwives working alongside nurses and doctors; and “no midwifery” (“NoM”) in medical facilities without midwives. Phone survey data were collected and analyzed from all women (n = 1,191) who delivered from Jan 2020-June 2020 at seven health care facilities in Bangladesh. Comparison of means, ANOVA, post hoc Tukey, and effect size were used to explore the differences in outcomes across time periods. Findings: Pre-pandemic, women served by the FEM model reported significantly higher rates of trust and respect (p

Date: 2022
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