Women's Decision-Making And Factors Affecting Their Choice Of ...

CHAPTER 6 RESULTS 127
INTRODUCTION 127
FINDINGS 129
Table 5: Age and Planned Place of Delivery 129
Table 6: Educational status 129
Table 7: Marital status 130
Table 8: Parity 130
Table 9: Themes expressed by women in both groups 132
Table 10: Themes expressed about the hospital 133
Table 11: Themes expressed about the chosen Venue 134
Table 12: Other Themes 135
Table 13: Themes that were combined 135
Box 2: Pseudonyms of study participants and planned place of delivery 138
Information about available options 138
Risk perception/safety 148
Control 171
Discussion of findings 175
Summary 182
CHAPTER 7: DISCUSSION 183
Implications of the findings for women 192
Implications for Midwives 193
Implications for research 194
Limitations of the study 195
Contribution to research 197
APPENDICES 198
Appendix I: (Information leaflet) 198
Appendix 2: Consent to be contacted
Appendix 3a Consent form 200
Appendix 3b: Consent form 200
Appendix 4: Transcript of first home birth interview (Gaolape) 200
Appendix 5: Reflective notes 224
Appendix 6: Nnese's transcript 224
Appendix 7: Line coding OInuku's transcript) 229
Appendix 8: Thematic analysis 240
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