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Disrespect and Abuse during Childbirth in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review.
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- A Systematic Review of Obstetric Mistreatment Among Women Living With HIV.Nursing & health sciences · 2026Pooled it
- The development of proxy indicators to measure workforce well-being in emergency obstetric and neonatal care settings.Journal of global health · 2025Pooled it
- Predictors of institutional delivery service utilization in Ethiopia: an umbrella review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- "One's life becomes even more miserable when we hear all those hurtful words". A mixed methods systematic review of disrespect and abuse in abortion care.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025Pooled it
- The roles of multi-component interventions in reducing mistreatment of women and enhancing respectful maternity care: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Pooled it
- Improving respectful maternity care through group antenatal care: Findings from a cluster randomized controlled trial.Midwifery · 2025Trial
- Prevalence and determinants of obstetric violence during facility-based childbirth among postnatal women in Egypt.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Obstetric violence and associated factors among women who gave birth at public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024: a cross-sectional study.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2026Article
- Women's Autonomy in Obstetric Care: A Qualitative Study on Violations and Experiences.Nursing & health sciences · 2026Article
- Determinants of person-centered maternity care during child birth at the selected hospitals of South Gondar Zone, Northwest Ethiopia: mixed cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Disrespect and abuse during childbirth and associated factors among women: a cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
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- Impact of disrespectful maternity care on childbirth complications: a multicentre cross-sectional study in Ethiopia.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- The mistreatment of women during maternity care and its association with the maternal continuum of care in health facilities.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- Obstetric violence and associated factors among women who gave birth at public hospitals in Addis Ababa city administration, Ethiopia.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Article
- Person-centered maternity care during childbirth and associated factors at public hospitals in central Ethiopia.SAGE open medicine · 2024Article
- Women's perspectives on disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth in Ethiopia: a qualitative study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Quality of obstetric and newborn care in health centers of Addis Ababa City: using the WHO quality framework.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- 'I believe respect means providing necessary treatment on time' - a qualitative study of health care providers' perspectives on disrespect and abuse during childbirth in Southwest Ethiopia.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Understanding variation in person-centered maternity care: Results from a household survey of postpartum women in 6 regions of Ethiopia.AJOG global reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundDisrespect and abuse are recognized for the restricting impact of women from seeking maternal care, psychological humiliations, grievances, and unspoken sufferings on women during childbirth. Individual primary studies are limited in explaining of extent of disrespect and abusive care. Hence, this review considers the synthesis of comprehensive evidence on the extent, contributing factors, and consequences of disrespectful and abusive intrapartum care from the women's and providers' perspectives in Ethiopia.
methodsArticles had been systematically searched from the databases of PubMed, Cochrane Library, POPLINE, Google Scholar, HINARI, African Journals Online, and WHO Global Health Library. A qualitative and quantitative synthesis was performed using the Bowser and Hill landscape analytical framework.
resultTwenty-two studies comprised of the 16 quantitative; 5 qualitative and one mixed studies were included. The most repeatedly dishonored right during facility-based childbirth in Ethiopia was nondignified care, and the least commonly reported abuse was detention in health facilities. These behaviors were contributed by normalization of care, lack of empowerment and education of women, weak health system, and lack of training of providers. Women subjected to disrespectful and abusive behavior distanced themselves from the use of facility-based childbirth-related services and have endured psychological humiliations.
conclusionDisrespectful and abusive care of women during childbirth is repeatedly practiced care in Ethiopia. This result specifically described the contributing factors and their effects as a barrier to the utilization of facility-based childbirth. Therefore, to overcome this alarming problem, health systems and care providers must be responsive to the specific needs of women during childbirth, and implementing policies for standard care of respectful maternity care must be compulsory. In addition, observational, qualitative, and mixed types of studies are required to provide comprehensive evidences on disrespect and abusive behavior during childbirth in Ethiopia.
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