RT Journal Article
T1 Quality of Childbirth Care in Women Undergoing Labour: Satisfaction with Care Received and How It Changes over Time
A1 Donate Manzanares, Miriam
A1 Rodríguez Cano, Teresa
A1 Gómez Salgado, Juan
A1 Rodríguez Almagro, Julián Javier
AB Background: To evaluate women’s satisfaction with the care received during childbirthundergoing labour and how this changes over time. (2) Methods: An observational, multicentreand longitudinal study in two public hospitals of Spain with a convenience sample of 248 womenduring the post-partum period. Satisfaction was evaluated using the Intrapartal-Specific Quality fromthe Patient’s Perspective questionnaire. Socio-demographic and clinical variables were considered.A bivariate analysis evaluated the relationship between satisfaction and the recorded variables tocompare the hypotheses, and also to know if there were any significant differences between thescores obtained at the various evaluated time points (three days, 15 days, one year postpartum).The multivariate analysis by binary logistic regression helped complete the study about the variablesrelated to the level of satisfaction; (3) Results: The mean scores for satisfaction at each time pointwere high, and they lowered with time. The bivariate analysis showed an association betweensatisfaction and the following variables: ‘mother’s place of birth’, ‘level of education’, ‘type of labouronset’, ‘type of birth’ and ‘type of perineal trauma’. For the multivariate analysis, women who gavebirth vaginally, began labour spontaneously and had an epidural were more satisfied than thosewho did not; (4) Conclusions: Women seemed to obtain good levels of satisfaction with the carethey received. Even so, based on continuously improved quality, we proposed some improvementmeasures, particularly regarding the physical environment and the information offered to patients.It is important to know at what time experience while giving birth should be evaluated as scores canlower with time as part of its normal evolution.
PB MDPI
SN 2077-0383
YR 2019
FD 2019-03
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16491
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16491
LA eng
NO Donate Manzanares, M., Rodríguez Cano, T., Gómez Salgado, J., Rodríguez Almagro, J., ... Beato Fernández, L. (2019). Quality of Childbirth Care in Women undergoing Labour: Satisfaction with Care Received and How It Changes over Time. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8(4), 434. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm8040434
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026