Background Respectful maternity care is the provision of woman-centered health care
during childbirth that is friendly, abuse-free, timely, and discrimination-free. Although several …

Despite global attention, physical and verbal abuse remains prevalent in maternity and
newborn healthcare. We aimed to establish theoretical principles for interventions to reduce …

Background The Sustainable Development Goal Three has prioritised reducing maternal,
under-5 and neonatal mortalities as core global health policy objectives. The place, where …

Objective Access to high-quality, respectful care is a basic human right. A lack of respectful
care during childbirth is associated with poor outcomes and can negatively influence care …

Introduction: Respectful maternity care is essential for improving maternal and neonatal
health. Lack of respectful maternity care during childbirth services is one of the deterrents to …

Background Person-centered maternity care is respectful and responsive care to individual
women's preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that their values guide all clinical …

Background and Objectives: Respectful maternity care promotes practices that acknowledge
women's preferences and women and newborns' needs. It is an individual-centered strategy …

Objective The study aims to assess quality of obstetric and newborn care including
respectfulness of the maternity care. Design The study used explanatory sequential mixed …

Background: Respectful maternal care (RMC) is increasingly recognized globally as critical
to improving the quality of maternity care as women deserve respectful and dignified care …

Background Childbirth reserves respect, as emphasized by the World Health Organization in
2018, and the focus towards the need for positive, dignified delivery experiences has …