Table 2 Items for person-centered maternity care scale
From: Validation of the person-centered maternity care scale in India
Original Domain | Question | Referred to in text as | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
Dignity/Respect | 1. How did you feel about the amount of time you waited? Would you say it was very short, just a little long, somewhat long, or very long? | Time to care | Retained but loads at less than 0.3 |
Dignity/Respect | 2. During your time in the health facility did the doctors, nurses, or other health care providers introduce themselves to you when they first came to see you? | Introduce self | Retained but loads at less than 0.3 |
Dignity/Respect | 3. Did the doctors, nurses, or other health care providers call you by your name? | Called by name | Retained |
Dignity/Respect | 4. Did the doctors, nurses, or other staff at the facility treat you with respect? | Treated with respect | Retained |
Dignity/Respect | 5. Did the doctors, nurses, and other staff at the facility treat you in a friendly manner? | Friendly | Retained |
Dignity/Respect | 6. Did you feel the doctors, nurses, or other health providers shouted at you, scolded, insulted, threatened, or talked to you rudely? | Verbal abuse | Retained |
Dignity/Respect | 7. Did you feel like you were treated roughly like pushed, beaten, slapped, pinched, physically restrained, or gagged? | Physical abuse | Retained but loads at less than 0.3 |
Privacy/Confidentiality | 8. During examinations in the labor room, were you covered up with a cloth or blanket or screened with a curtain so that you did not feel exposed? | Visual privacy | Retained |
Privacy/Confidentiality | 9. Do you feel like your health information was or will be kept confidential at this facility? | Record confidentiality | Retained |
Autonomy | 10. Did you feel like the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility involved you in decisions about your care? | Involvement in care | Retained |
Autonomy | 11. Did the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility ask your permission/consent before doing procedures and examinations on you? | Consent to procedures/exams | Retained |
Autonomy | 12. During the delivery, do you feel like you were able to be in the position of your choice? | Delivery position choice | Retained |
Communication | 13. Did the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility speak to you in a language you could understand? | Language | Retained but loads at less than 0.3 |
Communication | 14. Did the doctors and nurses explain to you why they were doing examinations or procedures on you? | Explain exams/procedures | Retained |
Communication | 15. Did the doctors and nurses explain to you why they were giving you any medicine? | Explain medicines | Retained |
Communication | 16. Did you feel you could ask the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility any questions you had? | Able to ask questions | Retained but loads at less than 0.3 |
Social Support | 17. Were you allowed to have someone you wanted (outside of staff at the facility, such as family or friends) to stay with you during labor? | Labor support | Retained |
Social Support | 18. Were you allowed to have someone you wanted to stay with you during delivery? | Delivery support | Retained |
Supportive Care | 19. Did the doctors and nurses at the facility talk to you about how you were feeling? | Talk about feeling | Retained |
Supportive Care | 20. Did the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility support your anxieties and fears? | Support anxiety | Deleted based on wording of question |
Supportive Care | 21. Do you feel the doctors or nurses did everything they could to help control your pain? | Control pain | Retained |
Supportive Care | 22. When you needed help, did you feel the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility paid attention? | Attention when need help | Retained |
Trust | 23. Did you feel the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility took the best care of you? | Took best care | Retained |
Trust | 24. Did you feel you could completely trust the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility with regards to your care? | Trust | Retained |
Facility environment | 25. Do you think there was enough health staff in the facility to care for you? | Enough staff | Retained |
Facility environment | 26. Thinking about the labor and postnatal wards, did you feel the health facility was crowded? | Crowded | Deleted: low loading |
Facility environment | 27. Thinking about the wards, washrooms and the general environment of the health facility, will you say the facility was very clean, clean, dirty, or very dirty? | Clean | Retained but loads at less than 0.3 |
Facility environment | 28. Was there clean drinking water available in the facility?a | Water | Deleted: low loading |
Facility environment | 29. Was there electricity in the facility? | Electricity | Deleted: low loading |
Facility environment | 30. In general, did you feel safe in the health facility? | Safe | Retained but loads at less than 0.3 |
Predictability & transparency of payments | 31. Did the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility ask you or your family for money other than the official cost?b | Bribe | Retained but loads at less than 0.3 |
Predictability & transparency of payments | 32. Were you or your family asked to buy anything from outside the health facility for your care?b | buy supplies | Deleted: low loading |