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Reproductive Health Matters
An international journal on sexual and reproductive health and rights
Volume 26, 2018 - Issue 53: Disrespect and abuse in maternal care: addressing key challenges
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Disrespect and abuse in maternity care: individual consequences of structural violence

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Andrea Solnes Miltenburg, Birgit Kvernflaten, Tarek Meguid & Johanne Sundby. (2023) Towards renewed commitment to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity: learning from 30 years of maternal health priorities. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 31:1.
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Andrea Solnes Miltenburg, Sandra van Pelt, Benedikte Lindskog, Johanne Sundby & Tarek Meguid. (2022) Understanding women’s decision-making process for birth location in Tanzania based on individual women’s reproductive pathways: a life-course perspective. Global Health Action 15:1.
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Rodante van der Waal, Veronica Mitchell, Inge van Nistelrooij & Vivienne Bozalek. (2021) Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage: The reproduction of the obstetric subject and its racialised (m)other. Agenda 35:3, pages 36-53.
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Adrienne E. Strong & Tara L. White. (2021) Re-examining Norms of Disrespect and Abuse in the Second Stage of Labor in Tanzanian Maternity Care. Medical Anthropology 40:4, pages 307-321.
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Gita Sen, Bhavya Reddy & Aditi Iyer. (2018) Beyond measurement: the drivers of disrespect and abuse in obstetric care. Reproductive Health Matters 26:53, pages 6-18.
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Shuby Puthussery, Wubet Alebachew Bayih, Hilary Brown & Raymond Akawire Aborigo. (2023) Promoting a global culture of respectful maternity care. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 23:1.
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Mariam L. Barabara, Susanna R. Cohen, Gileard Masenga, Linda M. Minja, Pendo S. Mlay, Maya J. Stephens, Gaudensia A. Olomi, Janeth Mlay, Virginie Marchand, Anya Weglarz, Olivia Hanson, Blandina T. Mmbaga & Melissa H. Watt. (2023) Factors associated with respectful maternity care and influence of HIV status among women giving birth in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania . Birth.
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Michelle K. Nakphong, Patience A. Afulani, James Opot & May Sudhinaraset. (2023) Access to support during childbirth?: women’s preferences and experiences of support person integration in a cross-sectional facility-based survey. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 23:1.
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Ahamad Salman Amathullah, Mohamed Rishard & Yasaswi Walpita. (2023) Impacts of disrespectful care and abusive care practices in maternity units and potential interventions to improve the quality of care in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A narrative review. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 162:3, pages 847-859.
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Rondi Anderson, Anna Williams, Hirshini von Kalm, Oliva Bazirete, Hala Al-Khair, Maqsura Nur & Caroline Homer. (2023) Global complacency with perpetuation of gender oppression in maternity care pride and gender transformation. Midwifery 123, pages 103735.
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Rodante van der Waal, Kaveri Mayra, Anna Horn & Rachelle Chadwick. (2022) Obstetric Violence: An Intersectional Refraction through Abolition Feminism. Feminist Anthropology 4:1, pages 91-114.
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Soo Downe, Rebecca Nowland, Andrew Clegg, Naseerah Akooji, Cath Harris, Alan Farrier, Lisa Tanyaradzwa Gondo, Kenny Finlayson, Gill Thomson, Carol Kingdon, Hedieh Mehrtash, Rebekah McCrimmon & Özge Tunçalp. (2023) Theories for interventions to reduce physical and verbal abuse: A mixed methods review of the health and social care literature to inform future maternity care. PLOS Global Public Health 3:4, pages e0001594.
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Desirée Mena-Tudela, Pablo Roman, Víctor M. González-Chordá, Miguel Rodriguez-Arrastia, Lourdes Gutiérrez-Cascajares & Carmen Ropero-Padilla. (2023) Experiences with obstetric violence among healthcare professionals and students in Spain: A constructivist grounded theory study. Women and Birth 36:2, pages e219-e226.
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Marta Schaaf, Maayan Jaffe, Özge Tunçalp & Lynn Freedman. (2023) A critical interpretive synthesis of power and mistreatment of women in maternity care. PLOS Global Public Health 3:1, pages e0000616.
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Muhammad Asim, Waqas Hameed, Bushra Khan, Sarah Saleem & Bilal Iqbal Avan. (2023) Applying the COM-B Model to Understand the Drivers of Mistreatment During Childbirth: A Qualitative Enquiry Among Maternity Care Staff. Global Health: Science and Practice.
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Fatima A. Alzyoud, Mary K. McCurry & Susan M. Hunter Revell. (2022) Patient Abuse in Healthcare: A Theoretical Synthesis. Nursing Science Quarterly 36:1, pages 70-77.
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Fatima A. Alzyoud, Mary K. McCurry, Susan M. Hunter Revell & Marni Kellogg. (2023) Nurse Disrespect and Abuse Toward Laboring and Child-Birthing Women. Nursing Research Publish Ahead of Print.
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Bethan Collins, Jenny Hall, Vanora Hundley & Jillian Ireland. (2023) Effective communication: Core to promoting respectful maternity care for disabled women. Midwifery 116, pages 103525.
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Rodante van der Waal & Kaveri Mayra. 2023. Gender-Based Violence: A Comprehensive Guide. Gender-Based Violence: A Comprehensive Guide 413 425 .
Desirée Mena-Tudela, Susana Iglesias-Casas, Agueda Cervera-Gasch, Laura Andreu-Pejó, Victor Manuel González-Chordá & María Jesús Valero-Chillerón. (2022) Breastfeeding and Obstetric Violence during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in Spain: Maternal Perceptions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19:23, pages 15737.
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Tamar Kabakian-Khasholian, Jihad Makhoul & Aleni Ghusayni. (2022) “A person who does not have money does not enter”: a qualitative study on refugee women’s experiences of respectful maternity care. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 22:1.
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Taís Martins Loreto, Jorge Francisco Kuhn dos Santos & Roseli Mieko Yamamoto Nomura. (2022) Understanding the opinion of doctors on obstetric violence in Brazil to improve women's care. Midwifery 109, pages 103294.
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Michaela Carroll, Cara Delay, Beth Sundstrom & Annie Gjelsvik. (2022) ‘Our Darkest Hour’: Women and Structural Violence under Ireland’s 8th Amendment. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics 6:1, pages 12.
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Kaveri Mayra, Zoë Matthews & Sabu S. Padmadas. (2022) Why do some health care providers disrespect and abuse women during childbirth in India?. Women and Birth 35:1, pages e49-e59.
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Waleola Bukola Ige & Winnie Baphumelele Cele. (2022) Barriers to the provision of respectful maternity care during childbirth by midwives in South-West, Nigeria: Findings from semi-structured interviews with midwives. International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences 17, pages 100449.
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Helen H. Habib, Jefferson Mwaisaka, Kwasi Torpey, Ernest Tei Maya & Augustine Ankomah. (2021) Evidence on respectful maternity care for adolescents: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews 10:1.
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Ziba Taghizadeh, Abbas Ebadi & Molouk Jaafarpour. (2021) Childbirth violence-based negative health consequences: a qualitative study in Iranian women. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 21:1.
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Phoebe Miller, Patience A. Afulani, Sabine Musange, Felix Sayingoza & Dilys Walker. (2021) Person-centered antenatal care and associated factors in Rwanda: a secondary analysis of program data. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 21:1.
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Júlia Martín-Badia, Noemí Obregón-Gutiérrez & Josefina Goberna-Tricas. (2021) Obstetric Violence as an Infringement on Basic Bioethical Principles. Reflections Inspired by Focus Groups with Midwives. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18:23, pages 12553.
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Amanda Nagle & Goleen Samari. (2021) State-level structural sexism and cesarean sections in the United States. Social Science & Medicine 289, pages 114406.
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Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Roberta Mensima Amoah, Carolyne Njue, Nguyen Toan Tran & Angela Dawson. (2021) Women's experiences and satisfaction with maternal referral service in Northern Ghana: A qualitative inquiry. Midwifery 101, pages 103065.
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Tanneke Herklots, Lara D'haene, Khairat Said Mbarouk, Mubina Rajhy, Simone Couperus, Tarek Meguid, Arie Franx, Maria P H Koster & Benoit Jacod. (2021) Journey to facility birth in Zanzibar: a questionnaire-based cohort study of patients’ perspectives on preparedness, access and quality of care. BMJ Open 11:2, pages e040381.
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Waleola Bukola Ige & Winnie Baphumelele Cele. (2021) Provision of respectful maternal care by midwives during childbirth in health facilities in Lagos State, Nigeria: A qualitative exploratory inquiry. International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences 15, pages 100354.
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Eva Neely, Briony Raven, Lesley Dixon, Carol Bartle & Carmen Timu-Parata. (2020) “Ashamed, Silent and Stuck in a System”—Applying a Structural Violence Lens to Midwives’ Stories on Social Disadvantage in Pregnancy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17:24, pages 9355.
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S. Malet, C. Choux, M. Akrich, E. Simon & P. Sagot. (2020) Violence au bloc obstétrical : une enquête prospective multicentrique auprès des femmes dans les maternités de Bourgogne. Gynécologie Obstétrique Fertilité & Sénologie  48:11, pages 790-799.
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Patience A. Afulani, Laura Buback, Brienne McNally, Selemani Mbuyita, Mary Mwanyika-Sando & Emily Peca. (2020) A Rapid Review of Available Evidence to Inform Indicators for Routine Monitoring and Evaluation of Respectful Maternity Care. Global Health: Science and Practice 8:1, pages 125-135.
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Maura Lappeman & Leslie Swartz. (2019) Rethinking obstetric violence and the “neglect of neglect”: the silence of a labour ward milieu in a South African district hospital. BMC International Health and Human Rights 19:1.
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Anna Galle, Helma Manaharlal, Emidio Cumbane, Joelma Picardo, Sally Griffin, Nafissa Osman, Kristien Roelens & Olivier Degomme. (2019) Disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth in southern Mozambique: a cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 19:1.
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Meghan A Bohren, Hedieh Mehrtash, Bukola Fawole, Thae Maung Maung, Mamadou Dioulde Balde, Ernest Maya, Soe Soe Thwin, Adeniyi K Aderoba, Joshua P Vogel, Theresa Azonima Irinyenikan, A Olusoji Adeyanju, Nwe Oo Mon, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Sihem Landoulsi, Chris Guure, Richard Adanu, Boubacar Alpha Diallo, A Metin Gülmezoglu, Anne-Marie Soumah, Alpha Oumar Sall & Özge Tunçalp. (2019) How women are treated during facility-based childbirth in four countries: a cross-sectional study with labour observations and community-based surveys. The Lancet 394:10210, pages 1750-1763.
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Kerry Scott, Dipanwita Gharai, Manjula Sharma, Namrata Choudhury, Bibha Mishra, Sara Chamberlain & Amnesty LeFevre. (2019) Yes, no, maybe so: the importance of cognitive interviewing to enhance structured surveys on respectful maternity care in northern India. Health Policy and Planning.
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