RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Barriers related to prenatal care utilization among women
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 1319
OP 1327
DO 10.15537/smj.2016.12.15505
VO 37
IS 12
A1 Roozbeh, Nasibeh
A1 Nahidi, Fatemeh
A1 Hajiyan, Sepideh
YR 2016
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/37/12/1319.abstract
AB Objectives To investigate barriers related to prenatal care utilization among women.Methods Data was collected in both English and Persian databases. English databases included: the International Medical Sciences, Medline, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar. The Persian databases included: the Iranmedex, the State Inpatient Databases (SID) with the use of related keywords, and on the basis of inclusion-exclusion criteria. The keywords included are barrier, prenatal care, women, access, and preventive factors. OR and AND were Boolean operators. After the study, articles were summarized, unrelated articles were rejected, and related articles were identified. Inclusion criteria were all published articles from 1990 to 2015, written in English and Persian languages. The titles and abstracts are related, and addressed all subjects about barriers related to prenatal care utilization. At the end, all duplicated articles were excluded. There were no restrictions for exclusion or inclusion of articles. Exclusion criteria were failure in reporting in studies, case studies, and lack of access to the full text.Results After searching various databases, 112 related articles were included. After reviewing articles’ titles, 67 unrelated articles and abstracts were rejected, 45 articles were evaluated, 20 of them were duplicated. Then, the qualities of 25 articles were analyzed. Therefore, 5 articles were excluded due to not mentioning the sample size, mismatches between method and data, or results. Total of 20 articles were selected for final analysis. Prenatal care utilization barrier can be divided into various domains such as individual barriers, financial barriers, organizational barriers, social, and cultural barriers.Conclusion To increase prenatal care coverage, it is necessary to pay attention to all domains, especially individual and financial barriers.