Community perspectives and experiences of quality maternal and newborn care in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
BMC Health Serv Res
; 23(1): 780, 2023 Jul 20.
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Improving the care provided to, and experienced by, women and their families during pregnancy and childbirth is important for improving the health of mothers and babies. Community members should be involved in thinking about appropriate ways to improve care. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a country in the Pacific which faces multiple challenges to improving care during pregnancy and birth. We aimed to understand what community members think about care provided and experienced during labour and birth in East New Britain, a rural province of PNG. We worked with five health facilities, health workers and community members in East New Britain to develop a qualitative research project. We carried out 10 focus group discussions with community members in East New Britain to understand what the provision and experience of care was like during labour and birth, and ways that it could be improved. We found that community members identified multiple challenges in getting to facilities and many facilities were found to have not enough supplies, equipment, or staff. Community members wanted staff that were good at their work but also caring and respectful. Women wanted to have support people present during labour and birth and many men wanted to be present too. Our results show that it is important to understand what the community thinks about the quality of care during labour and birth and this information is helpful to design effective activities to improve the care provided and experienced.
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Prognostic_studies
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Newborn
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Pregnancy
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Europa
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2023
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