1997 Volume 11 Issue 1 Pages 9-16
The present study was performed to elucidate the actual evaluations of cares by women who recieve them during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum periods.
A self-reporting questionnaire developed by the authors was used and the reliability andvalidity were examined. The subjects were 816 normal courses of postpartum women in 26different institutions.
As the results, throughout the periods of pregnancy, delivery and postpartum, the institutegiven the highest score of evaluation was midwives' clinics while general hospitals receivedthe lowest score in all three periods.
Regarding the degree of satisfaction with care, the highest was midwives' clinics, followedby obstetricians' clinics, university hospitals and general hospitals. These scores given tocares in each period and the total degree of satisfaction with cares throughout the periodswere significantly higher in midwives' clinics than those in other institutions.
The score of repeaters and the score of persons introduced were the highest midwives'clinics, followed by obstetricians' clinics, general hospitals and the lowest were universityhospitals. Significant differences were observed among average values of institution.
The parameters for predicting the degree of satisfaction with care were scores of cares inthe pregnancy, delivery and postpartum periods. Similary, parameters for predicting the score of repeaters were afore-mentioned care scores of each period.
