When Women Deliver at Home Without a Skilled Birth Attendant: A Qualitative Study on the Role of Health Care Systems in the Increasing Home Births Among Rural Women in Southwestern Uganda

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Table 1 Demographic Characteristics of Participants

Characteristic	Study Participants (n=30)
Median age, Median (Inter Quartile Range/IQR)	26 (20, 33)
Partner age, Median (IQR)	31 (24, 45)
Education Level, n (%)
>Primary	12 (40.0)
≤Primary	13 (43.3)
None	5 (16.7)
Median parity (IQR)	3 (2, 4)
Able to read English or Runyankole	25 (83.3)
Regular income (yes)	8 (26.7)
Household income ≥ 100,000 Ugandan shillings/month	16 (53.3)
Married/legal partnership	12 (40)
Known HIV status	20 (66.7)
Most recent pregnancy planned	13 (43.3)
ANC visits
0	3 (10.0)
1	9 (30.0)
2–3	11 (36.7)
≥4	7 (23.3)
Median time since last delivery, (IQR)	41 (23, 65)
Median number of people providing participant any kind of social support (IQR)	10 (5–16)
Choices for Delivery
Would definitely like to deliver from home in future	9 (30.0)
Delivered from home but would not do it again	4 (13.3)
Preferred facility delivery but reported their last home delivery as accidental	2 (6.7)
Delivered from facility and would like to do so in future	10 (33.3)
Delivered from facility but unsure if they would go again	3 (10.0)
Delivered from facility but would not do it in future	2 (6.7)