Table 2 Participants knowledge on the benefits of a female labor companion
Benefits | Number of practitioners |
|---|---|
Improved moral support to mothers | 61 (96.8%) |
Improved care by health workers | 48 (76.2%) |
Advantages to establishment of breast feeding | 39 (61.9%) |
Reduced instrumental and caesareans deliveries | 33 (52.4%) |
Shortened length of labor | 32 (50.8%) |
Reduction in the need of augmentation | 28 (44.4%) |
Improve neonatal outcome | 27 (42.9%) |