Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Limited research examines how birth satisfaction influences Nigerian women’s preferences for traditional or modern maternal healthcare services amid persistently high maternal. This facility-based cross-sectional re-analysis examined associations between recorded birth-experience domains and the type of maternal healthcare service used by 208 women recruited in Nigeria. The archived dataset classified service use as modern healthcare (n = 115; 55.3%) or traditional/faith-based care (n = 93; 44.7%). Three domains derived from an adapted Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised were compared using Mann-Whitney U tests; education and residence were assessed using chi-square tests, and adjusted associations were estimated by binary logistic regression. Quality-of-care (median 16 versus 16; p = .263) and personal-attributes scores (5 versus 6; p = .203) did not show statistically significant group differences. The recorded labour-stress-domain score was higher among modern-care users (13 versus 12; p = .004); however, its meaning cannot be established because the adapted item-level scoring key was unavailable. Education was associated with service type (χ²[4] = 25.58; p < .001), as was residence (Yates-corrected χ²[1] = 4.49; p = .034). Higher education (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.97 per level, 95% CI 1.54–2.52) and reported income (AOR = 1.54 per doubling, 95% CI 1.14–2.09) were associated with modern-care use. These findings indicate socioeconomic gradients in observed service use, but the design does not establish temporality, causality or whether birth-experience scores related to a previous encounter. The specific recruitment locations and dates require confirmation from field records.
Author: Olasunkanmi Rowland Adeleke
Institution: Adekunle Ajasin University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Adekunle Ajasin University
OpenAlex ID: W7224021203