Men's knowledge of obstetric danger signs, birth preparedness and complication readiness in Rural Tanzania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  August, Furaha ^a,b   Pembe, Andrea B ^a,b   Mpembeni, Rose ^a   Axemo, Pia ^b   Darj, Elisabeth ^b,c  

^a MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ATTITUDE TO PREGNANCY; CHILDBIRTH; CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FAMILY COUNSELING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSTETRIC EMERGENCY; PATERNAL ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; PUERPERIUM; RURAL POPULATION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TANZANIA; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPOUSE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; RURAL HEALTH; SPOUSES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929103327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125978     Document Type: Article

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