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Table 4 Selected health worker attitudes about clients, all cadres (survey results)

From: Provider and client perspectives on maternity care in Namibia: results from two cross-sectional studies

Survey item

Number and percent agreeing

When a woman speaks my language, it is easier for me to assist her during labor and delivery (n = 277).

180 (65.0%)

It is easier for me to assist a woman from my ethnic group (n = 277).

129 (46.2%)

It is easier assisting educated women when they come for maternal and neonatal care than women who are not educated (n = 279).

118 (42.3%)

Some providers at this facility treat women of low social status more poorly than other women of higher status (n = 280).

61 (21.8%)

Pregnant women less than 20 years old are sometimes treated negatively compared to the treatment of older women in my health facility (n = 276).

28 (10.1%)