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Measuring Abortion Incidence, Severity of Complications, and Health Facilities’ Capacity to Provide Abortion Care in Refugee Settings in Uganda, BAOBAB STUDY

Uganda, 2023
Health and Well-Being (HaW)
Yohannes Wado
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420a. Enter the other barrier(s) that might keep women from going to a higher-le (q420a_spy)

Data file: Uganda_HFS_RECAST

Overview

vald 61
Interval discrete

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Enter the other barrier(s) that might keep women from going to a higher-level facility when they are referred for treatment.
Categories
Value Category
-High numbers of patients at a higher facility so they are not cared for when they go there . -Drugs shortages in the hospitals and they end up buying them outside. -Few Staff at referral centers so they end up not giving quality service to
-They always say they don't have an attendant to take care of them while at a higher level facility. -some say they have young children who they can not leave alone at home.
-They don't have care takers when they go to higher facilities. -They luck awareness about their healthconditions.
-feeding and buying drugs while at higher facilities.
All patient go and receive medical treatment the fact that they escort them.
Attitude they have towards staff to the referral centre, Expenditures for food and some drugs incase they are out of stock.
Attitude towards referral sites, others feels they may operate on them surgical procedures.
Attitude towards referral.
Attitude towards the higher level facilities
Bad attitude of the health workers, shortage of workers
Bad reception in higher level
Congestion in the higher level facility
Cultural barriers, THERE some tribes that limit there women from being seen by other men or doctors. The refugees entirely depend on WFP so they think higher level facilties don't have food
Cultural beliefs because they believe when they are referred they are badly off and they end up dieing from there
Cultural beliefs like they fear to die ,they are referred where there is no medicine
Cultural beliefs they think when one is referred the person will undergo ceasian section
Delay of services at the referral sites.
Delay to receive services from the regional referral hospital.
Fear for operation for the maternity mothers.
Fear of high numbers at the referral centres Fear to leave the children at home alone.
Fear to be operated for maternity patients.
For maternity patients, they fear for operation . Language barrier where the Intepreter may fail to communicate well, this will make mothers not go to the referral centre.
Lack of food ,bad attitude of the health worker,
Lack of food, shortage of drugs in the higher level facility
Lack of money to buy drugs and other sundries that may not be in stock from the referral sites.
Lack of money, anxiety of the patients, no one to take of their kids
Lack of sensitisation
Lack of upkeep
Language barrier
Language barrier Rude staffs in Arua regional referral hospital Refugees are are not considered first at Arua regional referral hospital even when they come first.
Language barrier (for refugees ) Fear to perform cesarean section onto them(maternity patients)
Language barrier, Attitude of the medical workers. Accommodation issues.
Language barrier, shortage of drugs,lack of transport to come back after treatment, they think the health doesn't work on them
Mistreat of patients from the referral centers. There are no drugs at the referral centers.
Negative attitude towards higher facility, lack of food ,
No body to take care of the children when they are referred.
No drugs ,buying medical equipment like catheters, fluids cannula, iodine plaster,
No one to care for the kids ,lack of supplies like medicines and family planning methods ie implants
No one to take care of the kids
No treatment ie drugs at the higher facilities and they are requested to buy.
Patients fear the costs at the facility where they are referred.
Patients say staff at referral sites are hard on them, Economic status, like can't afford food from there.
Phobia for referral due to culture
Religious beliefs, upkeep because of the distance, lack of drugs
Relocating of the refugees
Shortage of drugs in the higher facility, they lack money to buy drugs ,attitude of health workers at the higher level facility
Social economic status
Some adolescents with induced abortions don't want other people to know like parents.
Some clients think being referred is a punished
Some fear admission since thet don't want to stay in the hospital
Stockouts of drugs in government facilities
The respondent reported that most of the women fear health workers from the other facilities.
The respondent reported that some women decline being referred because they have no one to leave at home.
The women fear to go to higher level facilities for treatment because they have no one to leave behind to take care of the other family members and their homes as well.
They are treated badly when they reach at the hospital, lack of relatives to take care of them since they are refugees, the drugs are too expensive for them to buy
They don't know the facilities
They say they are delayed when they go to higher facilities.
Traditional beliefs they fear to die
Trouble getting food from referral centre. Trouble buying medicines for themselves when it's out of stock.
Unable to facilitate themselves from the referral site like drugs or sundries incase they are outbof stock. Fear of finding busy lines and health workers work on them late.
Weather
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Question pretext
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Question post text
Question relevant when: selected( ${Q420} ,96)
Interviewer instructions
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Description

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other barrier(s) that might keep women from going to a higher-level facility when they are referred for treatment.
Universe
knowledgeable healthcare provider working in the facility situated in a refugee camp providing Post abortion care
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