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Perceptions in Reproductive Medicine

The Health Workers and Delivery Process Related Maternal Satisfaction with Delivery Services at UDUTH Sokoto, Nigeria

  • open or closeLawali Yakubu* and Lamide A

    Department of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Nigeria

    *Corresponding author:Lawali Yakubu, Department of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Nigeria

Submission: March 05, 2020;Published: March 17, 2020

Volume3 Issue5
March, 2020

Abstract

Every pregnancy and child birth comes with a specific experience and none is guaranteed to be safe. Positive delivery experiences facilitate the further use of the reproductive health services and vice versa. The objective of the present investigation was to determine the maternal satisfaction towards delivery services at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital Sokoto. A cross-sectional descriptive study was used. The study was conducted on a sample of 158 postnatal women at UDUTH. The study participants were selected using convenient method of sampling and the data was collected using self-administrated questionnaires. Most of the respondents are within the age range of 30-39 71(49.3%) and most of which are Hausas by tribe 57(39.6%). The finding of the study shows that, majority of the women were satisfied with all the process/health workers related factors except for the sex of health care provider who attended to them. Also, majority of the women were satisfied with most of the maternal obstetrics history related factors. However, most of them were not satisfied with assisted delivery services, complicated outcome of delivery as well as loss of child during or after delivery. In conclusion there is a high level of maternal satisfaction with delivery services in UDUTH Sokoto. The study recommended that, condition of toilets and shower rooms in the delivery room and postnatal ward should be addressed to ensure the satisfaction of maternity clients. Government should make infrastructural improvements to overcome shortages of water and electricity, toilet and shower supplies.

Keywords:Maternal; Satisfaction; Delivery services pregnancy

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