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Obstetricians' attitudes to caesarean delivery on maternal request in Nigeria
C O Chigbu1, C C Ezenyeaku, E P Ezenkwele
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria. chchigbu@yahoo.com
Abstract:
The study was done to determine obstetricians' attitude to and factors predicting obstetricians' acceptance of caesarean delivery on maternal request in Nigeria. Nigerian obstetricians were asked to respond to case scenarios depicting caesarean delivery on maternal request without medical indications and the reasons for their responses. The case scenarios were designed from previously published reasons for caesarean delivery on maternal request from Nigeria. Multiple logistic regressions analysis was done to determine factors predicting obstetricians' acceptance of caesarean delivery on maternal request out of respect for maternal autonomy. The majority (53.1%) of the respondents would accept caesarean delivery on maternal request out of respect for maternal autonomy. Caesarean requests backed up by social mitigating circumstances of previous childlessness and previous negative labour experience received significantly higher acceptances than requests with no back-up mitigating circumstances (p < 0.0001). A good proportion (48.8%) of Nigerian obstetricians had performed at least one caesarean on maternal request. Obstetricians' bio-professional characteristics do not influence their attitude to request caesarean delivery on maternal request. Some obstetricians expressed fear of legal consequences from caesarean delivery on maternal request.
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