Determination of obstetric violence and influencing factors in intrapartum period

This study was conducted out to determine the obstetric violence status of women who gave birth and the affecting factors. This descriptive study included 200 women who had a vaginal delivery in a state hospital in the southern part of Turkey. Data were collected with Personal Information Form, Birth Characteristics Information Form and Obstetric Violence Diagnosis Form. Descriptive statistics and chi-square tests were used in the analysis of the data. p<0.05 value was considered statistically significant. In the study, it was determined that 25.5% of the women who gave vaginal birth were exposed to verbal violence, 37.2% to psycho-emotional violence and all to physical violence. It was determined that women perceived the negative verbal and psycho-emotional behaviors they experienced as violence, but they did not perceive most of the physical attempts as violence. A statistically significant difference was found only between the place of residence and the type of obstetric violence among the sociodemographic characteristics of women (p<0.05). A statistically significant difference was found between the women's obstetric characteristics only before they were given birth information and their exposure to verbal obstetric violence (p<0.05). It was determined that 42.5% of the women were less satisfied with the intrapartum period. In the study, it was determined that women were exposed to obstetric violence and their intrapartum period satisfaction rates were low.