A Qualitative Study on the Pathways to Evidence-Based Antenatal Care in Periurban Ghana

Table 1

Global theme: pathways to evidence-based antenatal care.

Codes	Basic themes	Organising themes
Distribution of health staff	Improved health services	Improved ANC services
Routine monitoring of facilities	Improved ANC awareness
Health supervision
Health education and other services	Empowerment of mothers
Protocol to work with	Increased ANC turnout	Focused ANC
Client-friendly antenatal care
Daily ANC	Improved ANC reliance
Intensive ANC
Confidence and trust
Relief for mothers
Privacy of service rendered
Geographical constraints	Inadequate logistics	ANC services are constrained
Delays in paying claims
Financial barriers
Inadequate nurses and doctors	Inadequate health staff
Religious beliefs of clients
Misconception on free health care	Free care is strictly by insurance
Poor attitude of some caregivers	Attitude is deterrent to ANC	Attitude of health staff is vital
Insensitive of health staff
Lack of respect for mothers
Respect for mothers	Attitude of health staff
Lateness of health staff
Scientific proof	Rich sources of information	Evidence is crucial
Credibility of indication
Evidence-based planning	Evidence is integrated
Something proven to work
Standardised protocol and procedures	Things we hear and testify
Trust in evidence

Source: the authors’ construct (2016).