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Health-seeking behaviour among pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.
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- Impact of COVID-19 on Maternal Health Service Uptake and Perinatal Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to and delivery of maternal and child healthcare services in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the literature.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
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- Prevalence of probable post-COVID cardiac sequelae and its health seeking behaviour among health care workers: A cross-sectional analytical study.The Indian journal of tuberculosis · 2025Article
- Identifying predictors of COVID-related delays in cancer-specific medical care.Cancer medicine · 2024Article
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- "We Live Our Life Normal": A Qualitative Analysis of Nigerian Women's Health-Seeking Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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- Preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 pandemic in Bihor County/Romania.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2024Article
- The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare seeking in an urban informal settlement in Nairobi and a rural setting in western Kenya.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Lassa fever vaccine candidates: A scoping review of vaccine clinical trials.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2023Article
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- Exploring healthcare-seeking behavior of most vulnerable groups amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the humanitarian context in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: Findings from an exploratory qualitative study.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
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- Preferences for Attributes of Initial COVID-19 Diagnosis in the United States and China During the Pandemic: Discrete Choice Experiment With Propensity Score Matching.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2022Article
- "Even if I'm undetectable, I just feel like I would die": a qualitative study to understand the psychological and socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women living with HIV (WLWH) in Chicago, IL.BMC women's health · 2022Article
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- Experiences of Dutch Midwives Regarding the Quality of Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe novel coronavirus pandemic has killed millions of people globally while significantly destroying the social, economic, and political wellbeing of people. The global pandemic has negatively impacted pregnant women's access to prenatal care. The current study sought to understand the health-seeking behaviour of women who were pregnant during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya.
methodsThe "Three Delay" model theoretical framework was applied to piece together the pregnant women's health-seeking behaviour during the early stages of the pandemic through focus group discussions. The collected qualitative data was analysed using thematic analysis.
resultsThe delays in deciding to seek care, delays in reaching healthcare facilities and delays in receiving quality healthcare services at the healthcare facility were a result of the fear of contracting the virus. These delays were occasioned by participants' personal experiences and uncertainties about COVID-19 pandemic, compulsory quarantines, national cessation of movements, compulsory lockdowns, loss of income to many households and the influence of traditional birth attendants (TBAs).
conclusionThe current study found that fear of COVID-19 was a major factor that hindered access to maternal healthcare services. In this regard, there is a need to upscale awareness creation on the significance of seeking maternal health services during the pandemic to reduce the possibility of obliterating the gains made in reducing poor health-seeking behaviours among pregnant women.
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