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041			_aEnglish
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100			_aKarume Maisara _922549
245			_aAssessment of Barries on Maternity Waiting Home Use Among Pregnant Women in Kondoa District.
260			_aMwanza, Tanzania: _b Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS – Bugando] _c2012
300			_a40 Pages
300			_aIncludes References and Appendices
520			_aAbstract: Introduction: Maternity waiting homes have been proposed as a means to improve pregnant women’s access to hospital obstetric services. High risk pregnant women from poor geographical areas are referred by health workers to this home. In Kondoa District there are fewer women than expected to attend to MWH. Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the barriers on Maternity waiting home use among pregnant women in Kondoa District Council. Methodology: Cross Sectional analytical study was conducted among 419 consenting pregnant women of Kondoa District council between June and July 2012 Quantitative and qualitative design was used. Non-probability convince sampling was used to obtain pregnant women who participated in the study. A face to face questionnaire and FGD were used to collect information. Summarization was done using descriptive statistics. Ethical approval was obtained from CUHAS/BMC-ethical committees and informed consent was sought from each study participants. Results: Four hundred and nineteen were approached and all (100%) agreed to participate. The majority age of the participants was years, range (18-30 years) and 72% had primary education. The information about MWH among women had is about 218(51.8%). The main barriers which make women not to use MWH are bad language from hospital staff (51.9%) distance from MWH (19.5) and poor infrastructure of MWH (10.9%) Conclusion: The use of maternity waiting has been disrupted by various barriers like inadequate information the pregnant women have about MWH, existence of socio cultural barriers like gender inequality in decision making, women as the role of women in domestic economic at homes, and factors which prevent them to utilize MWH like bad language from hospital staff, distance, Inadequate food, TBA, and associated cost of living at MWH.
600			_xPublic Health _930696
700			_aBaltazar Gumodoka _948407
700			_aAdel Gabriel _948408
700			_aMeve OBeine _948409
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