Factors Associated with Quality of Intrapartum Care in Kenya: a complex samples analysis of the 2022 Kenya demographic and health survey
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2024
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Quality of intrapartum care remains a key intervention for increasing women’s utilization of skilled birth
attendants in health facilities and improving maternal and newborn health. This study aimed to
investigate the factors associated with the quality of intrapartum care using the 2022 Kenya
Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS).
Secondary data from the 2022 KDHS of 11,863 participants, who were selected by multistage stratied
sampling, was used. Quality of intrapartum care was considered if a mother had a facility-based delivery,
received skilled assistance during birth, and the baby immediately placed on the mother’s breast by
skilled birth attendant within 1 hour after birth. We conducted multivariable logistic regression to
determine the factors associated with quality of intrapartum care using SPSS (version 20).
Of the 11,863 women who had recently given birth, about 52.6% had received quality intrapartum care. As
part of the intrapartum care, 88.2% gave birth in a health facility, 90.4% obtained assistance from skilled
birth attendants, and 59.8% had their babies placed on the breast by delivery assistants within 1 hour
after birth. Women who had attained secondary education (aOR = 1.46, 95% CI: 1.23–1.90), were working
(aOR 1.24, 95% CI: 1.00-1.53), had > = 3 living children (aOR = 1.31 ,95% CI: 1.02–1.68), took 31–60
minutes to reach the health facility (aOR = 1.49, 95% CI: 1.41–1.95), were assisted during child birth by
doctors (aOR = 19.86, 95% CI: 2.89-136.43) and nurses/midwives/clinical ocers (aOR = 23.09, 95% CI:
3.36-158.89) had higher odds of receiving quality intrapartum care. On the other hand, women in the
richest wealth index (aOR = 0.64, 95% CI: 0.42–0.98), those who gave birth through cesarean section
(AOR = 0.27, 95% CI: 0.20–0.36) and those whose current age of their child was > = 2years (AOR = 0.76,
95% CI: 0.60–0.96) were less likely to receive quality intrapartum care.
About half of the women received quality clinical intrapartum care in Kenya, with demographic
characteristics seeming to be the main drivers of quality intrapartum care. There is need to empower
women through increasing access to education and developing initiatives for their economic
independence, as well as facilitating their increased access to skilled birth attendants to improve the
quality of intrapartum care.
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Nuwabaine, L., Amwiine, E., Sserwanja, Q., Kawuki, J., Amperiize, M., Namulema, A., & Asiimwe, J. B. (2024). Factors associated with quality of intrapartum care in Kenya: a complex samples analysis of the 2022 Kenya demographic and health survey.https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3909218/v1