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- Title
Porovnání péče soukromých a ambulantních porodních asistentek.
- Authors
Sikorová, L.; Stichenwirthová, K.
- Abstract
The paper presents the results of an investigation that compares care provided by a self-employed midwife who is active in the community or in a non-state medical facility, with the care by a midwife working in the gynaecological department under the guidance of a gynaecologist. The sample consisted of clients of private and outpatient clinic midwives in Plzen and Ostrava (n=191). A modified EUROPEP questionnaire was used to chart the level of care. This included five domains - the relationship between midwife and client, the quality care provided by the midwife, provision of information, organization of services and availability of care. To compare satisfaction with the care provided depending on the facilities and city, a non-parametric Wilcoxon test for two selections was used. A chi test and Fisher exact test were used to analyse the correlation of the descriptive characters to the city and facility. Care provided by midwives in Plzen was rated as superior in all domains of the EUROPEP questionnaire. The relationship between midwife and client was evaluated to be better in the private sector (p = 0.0054), the quality of provided care achieved higher average values for private midwives (p = 0.0007), clients were more satisfied with the information provided by private midwives (p = 0.0009), the organization of services between the sectors was not different (p = 0.0644) similarly as the availability of care (p = 0.0291).
- Subjects
FREELANCERS; GYNECOLOGY; MIDWIVES; GYNECOLOGISTS; OUTPATIENT medical care
- Publication
General Practitioner / Praktický Lékař, 2012, Vol 92, Issue 6, p353
- ISSN
0032-6739
- Publication type
Article