Quality of childbirth care and its determinants along the continuum of care among pregnant women who gave birth vaginally in Gondar town public health facility, Northwest Ethiopia, 2022: generalised structural equation modelling
Objective To assess the quality of childbirth care and its determinants along the continuum of care in Gondar town public health facility in Ethiopia. Design An institution-based, cross-sectional study was employed. Completed data were imported to Stata V.16 for cleaning and analysis. A generalised structural equation model was employed to examine the relationships along the continuum of childbirth care and to determine the factors affecting the quality of childbirth care. Setting and participants This study was conducted among a total of 865 women who delivered in the public health facility of Gondar, Ethiopia, from 19 May to 30 June 2022. Results The study revealed the proportion of good-quality childbirth care during admission, intrapartum and immediate postpartum period was 59% (95% CI 55.7, 62.4), 76.8% (95% CI 73.8, 79.5) and 45% (95% CI 41.7, 48.5), respectively. Postsecondary educational status of mothers (β=0.60, 95% CI 0.16, 1.04) and maternal age of 25–35 (β=0.68, 95% CI 0.3