Acceptability of male involvement in antenatal care in Tarime district council
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Mwita, Sibora
This study was carried out at the Tarime district council from 28 October 2019 to 25 February 2020. With the acceptability of male involvement in antenatal care, a case of Tarime District Council The study involved 85 pregnant women who service at Tarime district council hospital during the period of the study and 5 health providers who provide ANC services. Data were collected using questionnaires, observation, and interviews, and were coded processed and analyzed by using SPSS (Statistical Package of Social science. Among other things, the study revealed that all respondents were knowledgeable about ANC services and 94.4% of them were accompanied to ANC visits by their spouses. This resulted from the influence of government strategies that insist on male involvement in ANC services. Reflection on the findings seems to suggest that many factors are affecting male involvement in ANC services such as social-economic factors, cultural factors, health factors, and residence of the respondents. It also revealed that men have a perception that ANC services issues are inclusively for women In general, there is a need to incentivize male spouses who successfully accompany their spouses. The incentive can be in form of allowances agreed upon by the Ministry of health and the community, undertake wider community outreach so that more men can be persuaded to participate in their partners and improving interpersonal skills of the health providers using information about how the community (women and men)defines ANC. There may be a need for closed sessions among the male leaders and community leaders when discussing cultural and traditional issues that infringe on reproductive health.
A Research Report Submitted To The School of Public Administration and Management in Partial Fulfillment of The Requirement For the Award of Bachelor of Health System Management of Mzumbe University
Name: BHSM- MWITA,SIBORA ...
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