ArticlePloS one2020
Utilization of companionship during delivery and associated factors among women who gave birth at Arba Minch town public health facilities, southern Ethiopia.
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- Health system responsiveness for maternal healthcare services in East Africa: a mixed-methods systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- Labor support in low- and middle-income countries - transformative impact of birth companions and doulas on maternal and neonatal outcomes: a narrative review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Review
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- Obstetric Care Providers' Practices and Associated Factors Towards Birth Companionship in Public Hospitals of South Gondar zone, Northwest Ethiopia, 2025.SAGE open medicine · 2026Article
- Labor companionship utilization and healthcare providers perceptions in Gondar public health facilities: a mixed method study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- "It shows that I belong": a qualitative study assessing birth companionship of choice in a maternity clinic in Freetown, Sierra Leone.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Quality of intrapartum and newborn care in public healthcare facilities of Wolkite town, Central Ethiopia: facility-based cross-sectional study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
- Labour companionship and respectful treatment of women during childbirth: a cross-sectional study across 16 hospitals in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Analysis of factors affecting companions' level of adherence to support roles during labor and childbirth: a mixed-methods study.SAGE open medicine · 2025Article
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- Desire for labor companionship and its associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public health facilities in Debre Berhan City: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Article
- Utilization of birth companionship and its associated factors among laboring mothers during facilities birth in sub-Saharan Africa. Systematic review and meta-analysis.SAGE open medicine · 2024Review
- From global recommendations to (in)action: A scoping review of the coverage of companion of choice for women during labour and birth.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Birth attendants' attitudes and practice of companionship during facility-based childbirth and associated factors in the West Shoa Zone, central Ethiopia: A mixed method design.SAGE open medicine · 2023Article
- Respectful maternity care in health centers of Addis Ababa city: a mixed method study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Desire for Birth Companionship Among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care in Debremarkos City, Northwest Ethiopia: Magnitude and Associated Factors.Frontiers in global women's health · 2022Article
- Immediate Postnatal Care Satisfaction and Associated Factors Among Postnatal Women in Public Health Facilities at Debre Markos Town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
- Male partner participation in maternity care and social support for childbearing women: a discussion paper.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Labor Companionship in Labor and Delivery at Debremarkos Town Public Health Facilities: Magnitude and Associated Factors.International journal of women's health · 2021Article
- Perception of childbirth companion presence and its determinants among maternity care providers in Southwest Ethiopia: Mixed-method study.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
backgroundCompanionship during delivery is an important feature of compassionate and respectful maternity care. It has a positive impact on delivery and birth outcomes. In low resource countries like Ethiopia lack of companionship discourages women from accessing facility-based delivery care. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the utilization of companionship during delivery and associated factors.
methodsHealth facility-based cross-sectional study design was done from October to November 2019. Interviewer administered questionnaires were used to collect the data from 418 study participants. The data were entered with Epi data version 4.4 and exported to Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0 for analysis. Binary logistic regression was done. Statistical significance was declared at P- values < 0.05 with a 95% confidence level.
resultsThe finding of the study showed that only 13.8% of mothers utilize companionship during delivery. Variables such as having a desire to have companionship during delivery in the health facilities (AOR = 5.17, CI 95% 2.63, 10.16), having complication during the labor and delivery (AOR = 3.48, CI 95%, 1.81, 6.70), and being primipara (AOR = 2.05, CI 95% 1.09, 3.87) were the independent factors associated with companionship utilization.
conclusionsThe finding of the study showed that the utilization of companionship during delivery was low. Permitting women to have a companion of choice during labor and childbirth can be a cost-effective intervention to improve the quality of maternity care, facing complications during delivery, having a desire to have companionship during delivery and primiparous women were more likely to utilize companionship. To improve this low utilization of companionship institutions and care providers should provide information about companionship during antenatal care attendance. Besides, there is a need for clear guidelines to govern the practice of companions.
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