Background Despite growing recognition of neglectful, abusive, and disrespectful treatment
of women during childbirth in health facilities, there is no consensus at a global level on how …

Background High maternal mortality and morbidity persist, in large part due to inadequate
access to timely and quality health care. Attitudes and behaviours of maternal health care …

Background Recently WHO researchers described seven dimensions of mistreatment in
maternity care that have adverse impacts on quality and safety. Applying the WHO …

Background Women across the world are mistreated during childbirth. We aimed to develop
and implement evidence-informed, validated tools to measure mistreatment during …

Maternal health is a big issue and is central to sustainable development. Each year, about
210 million women become pregnant and about 140 million newborn babies are delivered …

Background Several qualitative studies have described disrespectful, abusive, and
neglectful treatment of women during facility-based childbirth, but few studies document the …

Women's experiences of disrespect and abuse depend less on normative standards than on
the unwritten norms in their locality. A specific set of behaviours or conditions will be agreed …

Background Poor quality of care at health facilities is a barrier to pregnant women and their
families accessing skilled care. Increasing evidence from low resource countries suggests …

Concerns about disrespect and abuse (D&A) experienced by women during institutional
birth have become critical to the discourse on maternal health. The rapid growth of the field …

Background In many countries, rates of facility-based childbirth have increased substantially
in recent years. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the acceptability and quality …