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Eliciting women’s preferences for place of child birth at a peri-urban setting in Nairobi, Kenya: A discrete choice experiment

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  • Jackline Oluoch-Aridi
  • Mary B Adam
  • Francis Wafula
  • Gilbert K’okwaro

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Objective: Maternal and newborn mortality rates are high in peri-urban areas in cities in Kenya, yet little is known about what drives women’s decisions on where to deliver. This study aimed at understanding women’s preferences on place of childbirth and how sociodemographic factors shape these preferences. Methods: This study used a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) to quantify the relative importance of attributes on women’s choice of place of childbirth within a peri-urban setting in Nairobi, Kenya. Participants were women aged 18–49 years, who had delivered at six health facilities. The DCE consisted of six attributes: cleanliness, availability of medical equipment and drug supplies, attitude of healthcare worker, cost of delivery services, the quality of clinical services, distance and an opt-out alternative. Each woman received eight questions. A conditional logit model established the relative strength of preferences. A mixed logit model was used to assess how women’s preferences for selected attributes changed based on their sociodemographic characteristics. Results: 411 women participated in the Discrete Choice Experiment, a response rate of 97.6% and completed 20,080 choice tasks. Health facility cleanliness was found to have the strongest association with choice of health facility (β = 1.488 p

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  • Jackline Oluoch-Aridi & Mary B Adam & Francis Wafula & Gilbert K’okwaro, 2020. "Eliciting women’s preferences for place of child birth at a peri-urban setting in Nairobi, Kenya: A discrete choice experiment," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(12), pages 1-16, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0242149
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242149
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    1. Nthambi, Mary & Lembo, Tiziana & Davis, Alicia & Nasuwa, Fortunata & Mmbaga, Blandina Theophil & Matthews, Louise & Hanley, Nick, 2023. "Quantifying farmers' preferences for antimicrobial use for livestock diseases in northern Tanzania," 97th Annual Conference, March 27-29, 2023, Warwick University, Coventry, UK 334570, Agricultural Economics Society - AES.

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