Tanzanian mothers’ cultural beliefs and misinformation regarding the reasons for their cesarean sections
| dc.contributor.author | Mathias, Victor A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-06T10:11:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-06T10:11:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND: In Tanzania, cesarean section (CS) rates have been steadily increasing, yet little is known about mothers’ understanding of the medical rationale for their CSs. ID:p0060 AIM: To identify mothers’ cultural understandings of the rationale for their CSs. ID:p0065 METHODS: Design: A qualitative descriptive design was employed. ID:p0070 Setting: A government hospital in the western region in Tanzania. ID:p0075 Participants: A total of 117 mothers were interviewed using convenience sampling post CS. ID:p0080 FINDINGS: Forty percent of the mothers were younger than 18 years, with more than 50% having had five or more live babies. Among multigravida women, 40.2% had had one or more previous CSs. ID:p0085 The emergent themes were lack of dietary knowledge, use of local herbs, delays in coming to hospital, avoiding stressful labor pains and no ability to exercise, and no personal preferences of “push or go for an operation.” ID:p0090 CONCLUSION: Pregnant women in Tanzania need improved health education to make informed choices about childbirth and be involved all processes of antepartum care decision making to achieve optimal birth outcomes. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mathias, V., Holroyd, E. and Edwards, G., 2019. Tanzanian Mothers’ Cultural Beliefs and Misinformation Regarding the Reasons for Their Cesarean Sections. International Journal of Childbirth, 8(3), p.189. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/2156-5287.8.3.189 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1438 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | International Journal of Childbirth | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cesarean section | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mothers | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tanzania | en_US |
| dc.title | Tanzanian mothers’ cultural beliefs and misinformation regarding the reasons for their cesarean sections | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |