Pregnant women’s perception is a reliable means of assessing quality of antenatal service delivery. Age, level of education, occupation
and religion are very important health indicators that can infuence perception. A cross-sectional survey design is used for this
study. 1500 pregnant women attending government-owned antenatal clinics were selected using multi-stage sampling technique. Data collected using the researchers’ developed questionnaires were summarized
with simple frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation. The result of the socio-demographic characteristics of the
respondents revealed that majority were within ages 25-31 years and their level of education is tertiary with business/trading as occupation. Lastly, the majority were Christians. The hypothesis tested revealed that there was no
significant influence between the pregnant women’s perception of the quality of antenatal services and the socio-demographic characteristics such as age (k = 3.20, p-value = 0.53); level of education (k = 1.52, p-value =
0.68); occupation (k = 2.18, p-value = 0.70); and religion (k = 3.52, p-value = 0.17). Further findings indicated that pregnant women had
positive perception about the quality of antenatal services provided by midwives (x= 3.52). It is therefore recommended that
Midwives should organize a regular forum to get feedback from pregnant women regarding the quality of antenatal services they provide.
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- Perception, Socio-demographic characteristics, Quality anatenatal services,
- SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND PERCEPTION OF THE QUALITY OF ANTENATAL SERVICES PROVIDED BY MIDWIVES IN SOUTH- SOUTH, NIGERIA
