dc.contributor.author | Oyoko, Paul Oduor | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-18T13:25:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-18T13:25:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Master of Arts in Project Planning and Management, University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/104203 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study examined the factors influencing the utilization of maternal waiting homes in Kenya
through a case study of Turkana West Sub County. The pregnancy related deaths are still a
common thing in many parts of the world as access to skilled health care remains one of the
challenges facing many developing countries. Maternal waiting homes concept was introduced
by World Health Organization as a means of improving accessibility to skilled healthcare thus
reducing morbidity and mortality for mothers and neonate should any complication arise as these
are homes within the reach of established health facilities. There has been little attempt to find
out how effectively these homes are utilized for their main purpose in Kenya. This study
therefore sought to identify and determine factors influencing utilization of Maternal Waiting
Homes in Turkana West Sub-County. The study was based on four identified factors being;
building design of the homes, community involvement, and distance of maternal waiting homes
from residential places of the users and upkeep cost while staying in the maternal waiting homes
and it determined how each factor influences their utilization. The study adopted survey method
where maternal waiting homes in Turkana West were surveyed. Simple random sampling was
used to obtain respondents from a purposively selected population of local administrators,
community health volunteers and health facility in charges in Turkana West Sub-County. The
questionnaires and interview schedules were used to obtain primary data while secondary data
was obtained from records and report found in these homes and other related materials. The data
collected, was edited, coded, classified and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The study
cautiously determined how each of the identified factors influences the utilization of maternal
waiting homes. The study revealed that key stakeholders in the utilization of maternal waiting
homes are the community and they must be fully involved to create awareness on them. The
study evidently concluded that upkeep cost highly influence how maternal waiting homes are
utilized and governments both at county and national level together with other stakeholders
should devote sufficient upkeep resources to these homes to realize their full utilization. The
study further recommended a cultural change to accommodate modern health system and accept
interventions among the communities who uses the maternal waiting homes. The construction of
these homes alone without consideration of the factors in this study may not achieve the desired
results why these homes are established and the stakeholders must intervene based on the
identified factors to put these maternal waiting homes to full utilization. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.title | Factors influencing utilization of maternal waiting homes in Kenya: a case of Turkana West sub-county | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |