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      How Baloch Women Make Decisions About the Risks Associated With Different Childbirth Settings in Southeast Iran

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          Abstract

          Background:

          In Zahedan City in Southeast Iran, some women prefer to give birth at home despite the availability of the equipped hospitals and expert advice that hospital births are safer.

          Objectives:

          This study explains how Baloch women make decisions regarding the risks associated with childbirth at home versus a hospital. This study identifies and defines the factors that influence the choice of the place of delivery by Baloch women.

          Materials and Methods:

          The article draws on data from a grounded theory. In particular, on in-depth interviews with 25 Baloch women, 21 of whom had planned home births and 4 planned hospital births in their most recent childbirth.

          Results:

          Six categories emerged from the data as follows: 1) deliberation and risk assessment; 2) obstacles to hospital births; 3) preference for hospital births; 4) obstacles to homebirth; 5) preference for homebirth; and 6) risk management. The core category was deliberation and risk assessment. Our interviews showed that Baloch woman weighed the negative and positive aspects of each option when deciding on a childbirth setting. In this process, their assessment of risk included physical wellbeing and sociao-cultural values. Furthermore, their assessment of risk can, in some circumstances, result in delays or avoidance of having hospital childbirth.

          Conclusions:

          Managers and service providers need to know an ordinary woman’s perception of risk to address the gap between current and desired childbirth services and encourage women to use current hospital services.

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              Approximately 1% of American women give birth at home and face substantial obstacles when they make this choice. This study describes the reasons that women in the United States choose home birth. A qualitative descriptive secondary analysis was conducted in a previously collected dataset obtained via an online survey. The sample consisted of 160 women who were US residents and planned a home birth at least once. Content analysis was used to study the responses from women to one essay question: "Why did you choose home birth?" Women who participated in the study were mostly married (91%) and white (87%). The majority (62%) had a college education. Our analysis revealed 508 separate statements about why these women chose home birth. Responses were coded and categorized into 26 common themes. The most common reasons given for wanting to birth at home were: 1) safety (n = 38); 2) avoidance of unnecessary medical interventions common in hospital births (n = 38); 3) previous negative hospital experience (n = 37); 4) more control (n = 35); and 5) comfortable, familiar environment (n = 30). Another dominant theme was women's trust in the birth process (n = 25). Women equated medical intervention with reduced safety and trusted their bodies' inherent ability to give birth without interference.
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                Author and article information

                Journal
                Nurs Midwifery Stud
                Nurs Midwifery Stud
                Kashan University of Medical Sciences
                Nursing and Midwifery Studies
                Kashan University of Medical Sciences
                2322-1488
                2322-1674
                20 March 2015
                March 2015
                : 4
                : 1
                : e24453
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, IR Iran
                [2 ]Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
                [3 ]Department of Demography and Population Studies, Faculty of Social Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, IR Iran
                Author notes
                [* ]Corresponding author: Zahra Moudi, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, IR Iran. Tel: +98-9153411005, Fax: +98-5433442481, E-mail: zz_moudi@ 123456yahoo.com
                Article
                10.17795/nmsjournal24453
                4377531
                25830159
                4f8bd315-5b4a-4bd2-a7bd-3be5ce514a2f
                Copyright © 2015, Kashan University of Medical Sciences.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 30 October 2014
                : 25 December 2014
                : 27 December 2014
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                risk assessment,risk management,child,decision making,iran
                risk assessment, risk management, child, decision making, iran

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