نگرش زنان روستايي استان كهگيلويه و بويراحمد در مورد ماما روستا 1380

Rural Womenʹs Attitude Towards Rural Midwives in Kohgiloyeh and Boyerahmad Province

Training of rural midwives was performed in order to decrease pregnancy and delivery complications in rural areas. However, in spite of rural midwifeʹs presence in this area most of deliveries were conducted by nontrained traditional birth attendants (TBAs). The purpose of this study was to determine the rural womenʹs attitude towards rural midwives in order to assess the factors related to this problem. In this study, 325 rural women in reproductive age were selected by multistage random sampling. Data was collected by interview and recorded in a predesigned questionnaire. The resits of this study indicated that the majority of women were 20-30 years old and illiterate. Most of them had delivered at home (64.8%) and most deliveries were conducted by TBAs (64.2%).86.1% of the women had a negative attitude towards the general characteristics of rural midwives and 89.2% of them had a positive attitude towards the occupational characteristics of rural midwives. The overall attitude of women was positive (51.3%). There was a statistically significant correlation between attitude and some demographic characteristics of the women who took part in this study. It seems that the negative attitude towards the general characterestics of rural midwives is the main factor that effects the utilization of rural midwife services by rural women. Therefore revision of the general characteristics in selection of rural midwives is recommended.