| Title |
Caesarean Delivery in South Italy: Women without Choice. A Cross Sectional Survey
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, September 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0043906 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Pamela Barbadoro, Carlos Chiatti, Marcello Mario D’Errico, Francesco Di Stanislao, Emilia Prospero |
| Abstract |
In spite of the World Health Organization's recommendations to maintain caesarean delivery (CD) between 5% and 15% of total births, the rates of CD continue to rise in countries with routine access to medical services. As in Italy CD rate reached 38% in 2008, the highest at EU level, we evaluated socioeconomic and clinical correlates of "elective" and "non programmed" CD in the Country. We performed a stratified analysis in order to verify whether the effect of such correlates differed among women with an "a priori" preference for natural and caesarean delivery respectively. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 32 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 18% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 9% |
| Researcher | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 5 | 15% |
| Unknown | 10 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 26% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 9% |
| Psychology | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 13 | 38% |