Fig. 4

Five-point Likert scale evaluation of health providers’ perceptions and use of the PartoMa guidelines 12 months after implementation. The respondents included 12 medical doctors and 23 nurse midwives in permanent positions at the Department of Obstetrics, as well as 49 intern doctors who had conducted their six-weeks obstetric rotation during the past ten months. Nurse-midviwes disagreed more often to question 2 (mean score 3.30), when compared to intern doctors (mean score 3.94) and doctors in permanent positions (mean score 4.50). Otherwise, no major differences were found between the groups. * Concerning questions 4 and 8, 1 (1%) and 2 (2%) health providers, respectively, did not respond