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Area of Science:

  • Maternal Health
  • Healthcare Quality
  • Psychometrics

Background:

  • Respectful maternity care is a human right and essential for quality childbirth.
  • Ensures dignity, autonomy, and safety for mothers and newborns.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Develop a valid and reliable scale to measure women's perceptions of respectful maternity care.
  • Focus on experiences during vaginal delivery.

Main Methods:

  • Sequential exploratory mixed-methods design.
  • Purposive sampling of 437 postpartum women from diverse hospital settings.
  • Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used.

Main Results:

  • A three-factor structure for the scale was confirmed.
  • Goodness-of-fit indices met acceptable criteria.
  • Cronbach's alpha values indicated high reliability (range .785–.954).

Conclusions:

  • The Respectful Maternity Care During Childbirth Scale is a culturally specific evaluation tool.
  • Informs midwifery training and maternal health policies.
  • Aims to improve the quality of maternity care and patient outcomes.