Abstract:
Background: - Providing compassionate and respectful maternity care services
during laboring mothers are one of the most important interventions to ensure
survival of women. However Compassionate and respectful maternity care has
received less attention both in practice and research.
Objective:-To assess the proportion of mistreatment and associated factors among
women who gave birth at health facility in Gondar city 2019
Method: Institutional based cross sectional quantitative study design was conducted
from March 1 - 30/2019 in public health facility. Data was collected using structured
questionnaire by face to face exit interview and chart review. Reported mistreatment
during childbirth was measured under seven categories using 24 performance
indicators. The data were entered using Epi-Info version 7.2 and editing, coding and
analysis were done using SPSS version 20. Descriptive statistics, bivariate and
multivariate logistic regression analyses were done to assess the mistreatment and
its determinant factors.
Result: A total 584 postpartum women participated in this study with a response rate
of 98.3%.The overall proportion of mistreatment was 73.2% with 95%CI
