Sanghita Bhattacharyya|Aradhana Srivastava|Reetabrata Roy|Bilal Iqbal Avan
Factors influencing women’s preference for health facility deliveries in Jharkhand state, India: a cross sectional analysis
Public Health Foundation of India|Public Health Foundation of India|University of London|London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine|University of London|London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
expanding institutional deliveries policy priority achieve mdg5 india adopted policy encourage facility births conditional cash incentive scheme yet 28 deliveries still occur home context important understand care experience women delivered home also health facilities analyzing differences services improved promote facility births study aims understand womens experience delivery care home facility births factors influence womens decisions regarding next place deliverya communitybased crosssectional survey undertaken district jharkhand state india interviews 500 recently delivered women 210 delivered facility 290 delivered home included sociodemographic characteristics experience recent delivery preference future delivery site data analysis included frequencies binary multiple logistic regressionsthere major difference experience care home facility births difference care regard pain relief massage injection low cost delivery home births 75 women wanted deliver next child facility main reasons availability medicine 294 perceived health benefits mother baby 15 women higher education aor 167 95 ci 104307 women 25 years aor 214 95 ci 126364 currently delivered facility aor 519 95 ci 297908 health problem postdelivery aor 185 95 ci 108319 significant predictors future facilitybased deliverythe predictors facility deliveries include availability medicines supplies potential health benefits mother newborn perception good care providers growing preference facility delivery particularly among women higher age group education income antennal checkup order uptake facility births quality improvement initiatives regularly assess address womens experiences care