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Perceptions of pregnant women of reasons for late initiation of antenatal care: A qualitative interview study
(BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020)
Background: Antenatal care serves as a key entry point for a pregnant woman to receive a broad range of services and should be initiated at the onset of pregnancy. The aim of the study was to understand the reasons for the ...
Barriers to accessing maternal health care amongst pregnant adolescents in South Africa: a qualitative study
(Springer Nature, 2020)
This study explores the barriers to accessing antenatal care (ANC) services amongst pregnant adolescents within a particular community of South Africa. Methods: An exploratory qualitative design was applied to examine the ...
Information-seeking in first visit pregnant women in Khayelitsha, South Africa
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)
The quality of the decisions made by women during pregnancy, especially their first visit, depends on their health needs, their health-seeking behaviour and the type of information available to them. Aim: This study describes ...
Dilemmas and paradoxes in providing and changing antenatal care: A study of nurses and midwives in rural Zimbabwe
(Oxford University Press, 2005)
This paper describes the experiences of caregivers in a rural district in Zimbabwe, in caring for
pregnant women within a context of changing antenatal care routines. Data were generated using
individual interviews with ...
Persistence of the inverse care law in maternal health service utilization: An examination of antenatal care and hospital delivery in Ghana
(PAGEpress, 2019)
The gap in maternal health outcomes, access and utilization between the haves and have-nots continues to be a challenge globally despite improvements over the past decade. Though Ghana has experienced steady gains in ...
Optimising scale and deployment of community health workers in Sierra Leone: a geospatial analysis
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)
Little is known about strategies for
optimising the scale and deployment of community health
workers (CHWs) to maximise geographic accessibility of
primary healthcare services.We used data from a national georeferenced
census ...
Effect of Covid‑19 on antenatal care: Experiences of medical professionals in the Netherlands
(BMC, 2023)
COVID-19 has greatly affected the delivery of all health care services globally. Antenatal care is one area
of care that has been impacted, despite the fact that attending antenatal check-ups is essential for pregnant ...
Performance of the 3-item screener, the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale, the Hopkins symptoms checklist-15 and the self-reporting questionnaire and pregnancy risk questionnaire, in screening of depression in antenatal clinics in the Blantyre district of Malawi
(University of Malawi, 2018)
Screening instruments for antenatal depression vary in performance. This study aimed at assessing the performance of a range of
screening instruments in detecting depressive symptoms in antenatal clinics in Blantyre ...