The Case for Using a Behavior Change Model to Design Interventions to Promote Respectful Maternal Care

Nadia Diamond-Smith; Dilys Walker; Patience A Afulani; France Donnay; Sunny Pei Yi Lin; Emily Peca; Mary Ellen Stanton

doi:10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00278

The Case for Using a Behavior Change Model to Design Interventions to Promote Respectful Maternal Care

Glob Health Sci Pract. 2023 Feb 28;11(1):e2200278. doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00278. Print 2023 Feb 28.

Authors

Nadia Diamond-Smith^{1

2}, Dilys Walker^{2

3}, Patience A Afulani^{4

2}, France Donnay⁵, Sunny Pei Yi Lin², Emily Peca⁶, Mary Ellen Stanton⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. nadia.diamond-smith@ucsf.edu.
² Institute for Global Health Sciences and University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁵ King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁶ University Research Co., LLC., Chevy Chase, MD, USA.
⁷ Consultant, McLean, VA, USA.

Abstract

Applying a behavior change framework to guide the design of interventions to improve respectful maternity care (RMC) could accelerate and unify the implementation and evaluation of diverse RMC interventions.