Bir Kadın Hakkı İhlali: Obstetrik Şiddet

Abstract

Obstetric violence is a type of violation of women's human rights. It is an important problem encountered during pregnancy, delivery and the postpartum period. It negatively affects both the health of mothers and babies. Obstetric violence includes actions, neglect and disrespectful treatment in the healthcare services that physically and/or psychologically harm women during pregnancy, delivery and the postpartum period. Obstetric violence negatively affects the physical and psychological health of women in many countries around the world and detracts from quality healthcare. The elements of obstetric violence encountered during service delivery are harmful acts that include violation of reproductive rights, scolding, mocking, sarcasm, insults, threats, humiliation, manipulation of knowledge, not providing effective medical care in time or delaying care, neglecting requests or complaints, not informing women about decisions made during delivery, not respecting the dignity of women, pain management used as punishment or violence to get women's approval, delaying mothers' time with babies and hindering breastfeeding. Healthcare professionals should provide high quality and respectful services to prevent and eliminate obstetric violence. Legal amendments that presents promising approaches towards mother care culture should be performed in healthcare systems for women not to be harmed due to mistreatment during delivery. This compilation study aimed to draw attention to the term, obstetric violence, which is not included in Turkey's related laws, and to raise healthcare personnel's awareness about it.

Obstetric Violence: What Do Midwifery Students Know?

“…These negative practices intentionally made by caregivers and examiners are called obstetric violence (OV). Obstetric violence (OV) is a type of violence against women that violates human rights (Saruhan et al, 2020). Wolf and Shabot have also defined obstetric violence as gender violence against women.…”

Obstetric Violence Questionnaire: Adaptation of a Turkish Self-Report Tool

“…Although review studies on OV have started to be carried out recently in Turkey (e.g., Kaya & Şahin, 2021; Kilci et al, 2020; Odabaş & Taşpınar, 2021), there is not yet a valid and reliable measurement tool developed or adapted to measure OV. Based on the view of Freedman et al (2014), OV needs to be examined in local contexts, due to differences in inter-countries, inter-cultures, and also maternity care settings.…”