Home Birth: Mothers

Misconceptions and its

Impact to Policy Makers

Wendelyn Garboso
Ruth Neri Saplot
Kristine Grace Agpalza

INTRODUCTION
The birth of a child is an experience that
most men and women in the Philippines
will go through. In most cultures
throughout history, women have given
birth at home. The majority of women
worldwide continue to birth their babies
in non-hospital settings today. In many
cultures birth is viewed as an important
part of family life. The birthing process
became segregated from ordinary family
life. Many were led to believe that the
only safe birth was a hospital birth.

This research was to explore the

reasons why some pregnant
women prefer to deliver at home
without skilled attendance despite
receiving antenatal care at a
health center and their perceptions
of perinatal care, and now that the
policy is implemented having no
choice, we can determine how it
affects pregnant women, and also
identify factors which may affect
pregnancy outcome.

STATEMENT OF THE
PROBLEM
This study attempted to determine
the misconception and its impact
to policy makers of home birth
among mothers and pregnant
women here in Maramag,
Bukidnon.

OBJECTIVES OF THE
STUDY
This study was intended to
evaluate the knowledge of the
mothers and multiparous women
about home birth and to help them
educate about giving birth to
facility based clinics here in
Maramag, Bukidnon.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The study provides significant
findings which would benefit the
Midwives, Mother and Researcher.
To correct the misconceptions of
home birth. And also for them to
know what are the risk outcomes if
they will go through home birth
specifically in the Municipality of
Maramag Bukidnon. A thorough
research should be done to get a
reliable result.

Scope and Limitation of the

Study
The study focused on the misconception
on giving birth at home among the
Multiparous women and mothers here in
Maramag, Bukidnon. Furthermore, the
study included multiparous women and
mothers and will be purposely chosen.
This method of selecting the respondent
poses limitations on the generalizability
of the findings.

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

AND STUDIES
And because of this goal the
government units implement the No
Home Birthing Policy as an answer to
the soaring number of maternal and
neonatal deaths however due to
misconceptions about home birth in
terms of personal, beliefs, cultural and
health services related factors the
policies that they tried to implement
are not fully followed.

Conceptual Framework

The research paradigm will serve

as a guide in conducting this
study, shown in Figure 1. The
conceptual framework presented
here describes mothers
misconception about home birth in
terms of personal, beliefs, cultural,
and health services related factors
has an impact to the policy makers
of no home birthing policy.

SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM
MISCONCEPTIONS
MISCONCEPTIONS

Personal
Personal Factors
Factors in
in terms
terms of
of age,
age,
civil
status,
educational
civil status, educational
attainment,
attainment, number
number of
of children,
children,
religion,
religion, and
and income
income

HOME
HOME BIRTH
BIRTH AND
AND ITS
ITS IMPACT
IMPACT TO
TO
THE
THE POLICY
POLICY MAKERS
MAKERS

Beliefs
terms of
of culture
Beliefs in
in terms
culture and
and
perceived quality
perceived
quality of
of health
health care
care

Cultural
Cultural factors
factors in
in terms
terms of
of
household income,
household
income, employment
employment
status,
status, and
and cost
cost transportation
transportation to
to
health
health facility
facility
Health
Health services
services related
related factors
factors in
in
terms
terms of
of quality
quality of
of care,
care, medical
medical
equipment,
equipment, cost
cost of
of healthcare,
healthcare,
availability
of
drugs,
availability of drugs, staff
staff attitude,
attitude,
staff
staff availability
availability and
and
access(geographical)
access(geographical)

Hypothesis of the Study

There is no significant relationship
between health institution profile
to the perceived economic,
cultural, health service related and
personal impact on pregnant
women and mothers.

METHODOLOGY
This

chapter presents the

research design, research locale,
sampling procedure, sample size,
statistical and research
instrument, scoring procedure,
and statistical treatment of
collected data.

Research Design
This study made use of the descriptive
correlational research design. The researchers
made use of the mothers responses about
home birth in terms of its misconceptions and
to explore the reasons why some pregnant
women prefer to deliver at home without skilled
attendance despite receiving antenatal care at
a health center and their perceptions of
perinatal care, and now that the policy is
implemented having no choice, we can
determine how it affects pregnant women, and
also identify factors which may affect
pregnancy outcome in Maramag, Bukidnon.

Research Locale
This study was conducted to the
selected puroks of Maramag,
Bukidnon with a population of
90,901 (National Statistics Office
2010). All mothers that already
experienced giving birth can
participate on the research that
were doing. This site is selected to
achieve a more comprehensive
study.

Respondents of the Study

There were 100 respondents in the
selected barangay of Maramag,
Bukidnon. The researchers choose
them because they came from a
far flung barangay who has a
difficulty seeking medical
assistance during childbirth. The
researchers also believed that the
respondents would be truthful of
their answers on the survey
questionnaires.

Sampling Procedure
The study made use of the
purposive simple procedure to
determine the actual respondents
of the study. Women who
experienced birth either home or
hospital delivery and multiparous
women are used as respondents of
the present study conducted.


Data Gathering Procedure

To attain the objectives of the

study, the primary data were
collected through a well-structured
are pre-tested survey
questionnaire distributed among
all our women respondents.
Women who experienced birth and
multiparous women are our
respondents.

Statistical Treatment
The study made use of descriptive
statistics. The first objective made use
of the frequency and percentage
counting while the second and third
objectives made use of the mean and
rank. Lastly, the fourth objective made
use of regression analysis to determine
the relationship between the
Misconceptions and its impact to the
policy makers of Homebirth to the
respondents of Maramag, Bukidnon.

THANK YOU~!!!