Prevalence and associated factors of health facility delivery during COVID-19 in the Tamale Metropolis of Ghana: Analytical cross-sectional study
Our findings show that health facility delivery declined during COVID-19. Factors that affected health facility delivery were educational status, marriage, having an active National Health Insurance Scheme, education on birth preparedness and complication readiness, underlying conditions before pregnancy, history of home delivery, mother-in-law decision on place of delivery, distance to place of delivery and perceiving COVID-19 as a barrier to facility delivery. These contributed to low facility delivery. Thus, maternal health services need to be brought to the doorsteps of communities, including proper implementation of the Focused Antenatal Care and community-based pregnancy school programmes, especially during future pandemics.
Authors
- Joyce Aputere Ndago (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9221-1367)
- Gilbert Abotisem Abiiro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3809-2671)
- David Abatanie Kanligi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0012-3097)
- Obed Kwaku Duah Asumadu
- Martin Nyaaba Adokiya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0167-5512)
Institutions
- University of Ghana (GH)
- University of Limerick (IE)
- Ghana Health Service (GH)
- University for Development Studies (GH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2026-03-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0344205
- Primary Topic
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00