Healthcare Providers' Perspectives on Labor and Birthing

The study population consisted of all the medical and nursing healthcare providers involved in providing institutional care during labour and birthing, including obstetric Consultants, Senior Residents, Post- Graduate doctors and all grades of nursing Staff.
Sampling involved "Universal total population sampling” [41 ] whereby all individuals belonging to the study population and present at the time of the study were approached for participation by sharing the Study Participant Information Sheet (Additional file, Annexure 1). This was done to eliminate any selection bias or sampling error. Those healthcare providers who expressed willingness to participate were given the Consent Form (Additional file, Annexure 2) for signature. These respondents were then handed over a printed questionnaire with a request to enter their response. Filled response sheets, along with consent forms, were personally collected from the participants. Since the PI was an Undergraduate student, her involvement in the interview and data collection could not have placed the participants under any coercion.. Of 115 doctors, 96 completed the questionnaire (response rate of 83%), while 55 of 105 nurses completed the questionnaire (response rates of 52%). With a sample of 151, our overall response rate was 69%. Most (95%) of the respondents were females.