The impact of COVID-19 on the provision of respectful maternity care: Findings from a global survey of health workers
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.05.21256667: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics not detected. Sex as a biological variable The main RMC-focused question that was added in the second survey was ‘At this time, to what extent do you feel that you are able to provide respectful care to women and newborns compared to before the COVID-19 outbreak?’ (5-point Likert scale). Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Data management and analysis: Data were exported from the online server to Microsoft Excel and cleaned by the first author. Microsoft Excelsuggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.05.21256667: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics not detected. Sex as a biological variable The main RMC-focused question that was added in the second survey was ‘At this time, to what extent do you feel that you are able to provide respectful care to women and newborns compared to before the COVID-19 outbreak?’ (5-point Likert scale). Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Data management and analysis: Data were exported from the online server to Microsoft Excel and cleaned by the first author. Microsoft Excelsuggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Strengths and limitations: This study is among the few studies that examined how the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted RMC globally from its onset. Our study provides a nuanced understanding of how the COVID-19 pandemic affected RMC across different settings and the potential areas of action that could be focused on to promote RMC and protect the rights of women and newborns in the remaining trajectory of the pandemic—the lessons learned could also be applied to future pandemics and health system disruptions. In our study, nearly half of the participants reported that their ability to provide respectful care was somewhat or substantially improved during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to before. This could be due to various factors including: 1) health workers perceiving certain RMC practices, such as companionship, as not essential to quality of care or not possible during a pandemic, 2) infection prevention measures taken during the pandemic, such as partitioning of rooms, providing more privacy, 3) resources, opportunities, and hygiene measures that evolved during the pandemic and improved the maternal health care system34, 4) reduced patient volumes in some settings due to women’s fear of viral infection35, resulting in more time and resources per client, and 5) new global guidelines that were introduced to protect the rights of childbearing women during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, our study is limited in terms of exploring how the ability of health workers to prov...
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