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Table 1 Themes and factors

From: Narratives on why pregnant women delay seeking maternal health care during delivery and obstetric complications in rural Ghana

Themes

Factors

Community cultural influence on maternal care utilisation

1. Low maternal freedom

2. Late disclosure of labour

3. Perceive better care from traditional birth attendants

4. Stigmatisation of unplanned pregnancies

Social behaviours impacting maternal support

5. Unsupportive attitudes of spouses during pregnancy

6. Perceived harmful community beliefs against supporting mothers during labour

7. Negative attitudes of expectant mothers and nurses

Community-level interventions to improve on skilled care utilisation

8. Intensify community/sectional education programme

9. Encourage men involvement in maternal service uptake