Table 6 Providers’ reports on attitudes toward birth companionship by site status
From: Birth companionship in a government health system: a pilot study in Kigoma, Tanzania
Attitude | Intervention sites | Comparison sites | Between-site comparison p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
N = 83% | N = 85% | ||
Reports allowing a companion in labor (% yes) | 100.0 | 15.3 | a < 0.001 |
Reports allowing a companion at the time of birth (% yes) | 86.8 | 3.5 | a < 0.001 |
Reports allowing a companion in the postpartum period (% yes) | 86.8 | 29.4 | a < 0.001 |