The person-centered maternity care (PCMC) is used to measure women's perceptions of respectful and responsive maternity care during labor and delivery across multiple contexts.
Developed by:
Patience A. Afulani, Nadia Diamond-Smith, Ginger Golub, May Sudhinaraset
Measure domains:
Dignity and Respect Communication and Autonomy Supportive Care
Items and subscales:
30 items
3 subscales
3 subscales
Cronbach's alpha:
Combined sample: 0.86
Rural sample: 0.88
Urban sample: 0.83
subscales range from 0.6-0.8
Rural sample: 0.88
Urban sample: 0.83
subscales range from 0.6-0.8
Study population(s):
Rural sample: women recruited at health facilities and in their homes who delivered in the past 9 weeks
Urban sample: women who delivered in a government health facility in the last week
Urban sample: women who delivered in a government health facility in the last week
Additional information:
Correlated with global measures of satisfaction and quality of maternal care.
Measure validated?:
Y
Link(s) to Validation Study and/or Measure:
Uses in Other Studies:
Afulani, P. A., Diamond-Smith, N., Phillips, B., Singhal, S., & Sudhinaraset, M. (2018). Validation of the person-centered maternity care scale in India. Reproductive Health, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-018-0591-7
Citation of original article
Get citationAfulani, P. A., Diamond-Smith, N., Golub, G., & Sudhinaraset, M. (2017). Development of a tool to measure person-centered maternity care in developing settings: validation in a rural and urban Kenyan population. Reproductive Health, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-017-0381-7