| dc.description.abstract | Most obstetric complications could be prevented or managed if women had access to a skilled birth
attendant SBAs; doctor, nurse, midwife during childbirth. Globally, almost 80% of live births
occurred with the assistance of skilled health personnel in the period 2012-2017 up from 62% in the
period 2000-2005. Improvements in the coverage of the proportion of births attended by SBAs and
their provision of care may have contributed to declines in maternal mortality between 1990 and
2015.The study adopted a survey research design using semi-structured questionnaire and interview
guide to collect data. That was collected from June to September, 2017. Interviews were conducted
with 370 eligible expectant women residing in Mombasa County. Data was entered in the Epi Data
database. Univariate statistics was explored to determine the frequency and percentage. Analysis was
conducted in R (version 3.4.3). All the 370 respondents had at one time visited the health facility to
seek the services for pregnancy check-up. Factors like mother’s checking their status and of the
unborn (42.2%), check-up/examination and treatment (17.6%) were some of reasons cited by
expectant mothers for visiting health facility, while factors such as nearness (76.5%) and availability
of essential services were some of reasons why expectant mothers visited a particular health facility.
There is need to improve the quality of existing facility-based delivery services and strengthening
linkages between the expectant mothers and the health facilities as to increase the deliveries. | en_US |
