Hedieh Mehrtash

Biographic Data

ID7799823
NAMEHedieh Mehrtash
GIVEN NAMESHedieh
FAMILY NAMEMehrtash
SIGNATUREMEHRTASH H
AFFILIATIONSWorld Health Organization
ORCID0000-0003-4991-616X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR16
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Satisfaction and experience of care among women with abortion-related complications from Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean

    Open AccessNelio Neves Veiga Junior, Hedieh Mehrtash et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Although abortion is a frequent event in women’s reproductive life and abortion-related complications have negative consequences for women’s health and wellbeing, little is known about the quality of abortion care. To improve the quality, women’s experience of care and satisfaction, need to be further standardized and studied. This study aims to assess experience and satisfaction with post-abortion care in Africa, and Latin America and the Caribb…

  • Comparing observed occurrence of mistreatment during childbirth with women’s self-report

    Open AccessHedieh Mehrtash, Meghan A Bohren et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    BACKGROUND: There has been substantial progress in developing approaches to measure mistreatment of women during childbirth. However, less is known about the differences in measurement approaches. In this study, we compare measures of mistreatment obtained from the same women using labour observations and community-based surveys in Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria. METHODS: Experiences of mistreatment during childbirth are person-centred quality measure…

  • Mistreatment of women during childbirth and postpartum depression

    Open AccessChris Guure, Philomina Akandity Aviisah et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    BACKGROUND: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a leading cause of disability globally with estimated prevalence of approximately 20% in low-income and middle-income countries. This study aims to determine the prevalence and factors associated with PPD following mistreatment during facility-based childbirth. METHOD: This secondary analysis used data from the community survey of postpartum women in Ghana, Guinea, Myanmar and Nigeria for the WHO study, …

  • Theories for interventions to reduce physical and verbal abuse

    Open AccessSoo Downe, Rebecca Nowland et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Despite global attention, physical and verbal abuse remains prevalent in maternity and newborn healthcare. We aimed to establish theoretical principles for interventions to reduce such abuse. We undertook a mixed methods systematic review of health and social care literature (MEDLINE, SocINDEX, Global Index Medicus, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Sept 29th 2020 and March 22 nd 2022: no date or language restrictions). Papers that included theory were a…

  • Strategies to improve interpersonal communication along the continuum of maternal and newborn care

    Open AccessKlaartje M Olde Loohuis, Bregje Christina De Kok et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Effective interpersonal communication is essential to provide respectful and quality maternal and newborn care (MNC). This scoping review mapped, categorized, and analysed strategies implemented to improve interpersonal communication within MNC up to 42 days after birth. Twelve bibliographic databases were searched for quantitative and qualitative studies that evaluated interventions to improve interpersonal communication between health workers a…

  • Adolescent experiences of mistreatment during childbirth in health facilities

    Open AccessTheresa Azonima Irinyenikan, Adeniyi Kolade Aderoba et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: Pregnancy and childbearing among adolescents-especially younger adolescents-is associated with health complications and lost opportunities for education and personal development. In addition to established challenges adolescents and young women face in sexual and reproductive healthcare, evidence suggests that they also face mistreatment during childbirth. METHODS: This is a secondary analysis of the WHO study 'How women are treated…

  • Labour companionship and women’s experiences of mistreatment during childbirth

    Open AccessMamadou Diouldé Baldé, Khalidha Nasiri et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Evidence has shown the benefits of labour companions during childbirth. Few studies have documented the relationship between the absence of labour companions and mistreatment of women during childbirth in low-income and middle-income countries using a standardised tool. METHODS: We conducted a secondary analysis of the WHO multi-country study on how women are treated during childbirth, where a cross-sectional community survey was cond…

  • Development of measures for assessing mistreatment of women during facility-based childbirth based on labour observations

    Open AccessBlair O Berger, Donna M Strobino et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: Mistreatment of women during childbirth is increasingly recognised as a significant issue globally. Research and programmatic efforts targeting this phenomenon have been limited by a lack of validated measurement tools. This study aimed to develop a set of concise, valid and reliable multidimensional measures for mistreatment using labour observations applicable across multiple settings. METHODS: Data from continuous labour observat…

  • Women’s report of mistreatment during facility-based childbirth

    Open AccessHannah H Leslie, Jigyasa Sharma et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Accountability for mistreatment during facility-based childbirth requires valid tools to measure and compare birth experiences. We analyse the WHO 'How women are treated during facility-based childbirth' community survey to test whether items mapping the typology of mistreatment function as scales and to create brief item sets to capture mistreatment by domain. METHODS: The cross-sectional community survey was conducted at up to 8 wee…

  • Women’s experiences of mistreatment during childbirth and their satisfaction with care

    Open AccessThae Maung Maung, Nwe Oo Mon et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: Experiences of care and satisfaction are intrinsically linked, as user's experiences of care may directly impact satisfaction, or indirectly impact user's expectations and values. Both experiences of care and satisfaction are important to measure so that quality can be monitored and improved. Globally, women experience mistreatment during childbirth at facilities; however, there is limited evidence exploring the mistreatment and wom…

  • A scoping review of the impact of organisational factors on providers and related interventions in LMICs

    Open AccessBhavya Reddy, Sophia Thomas et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    We have limited understanding of the organisational issues at the health facility-level that impact providers and care as it relates to mistreatment in childbirth, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). By extension, it is not clear what types of facility-level organisational changes or changes in working environments in LMICs could support and enable respectful maternity care (RMC). While there has been relatively more attention…

  • Understanding abortion-related complications in health facilities

    Open AccessZahida Qureshi, Hedieh Mehrtash et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Complications due to unsafe abortions are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in many sub-Saharan African countries. We aimed to characterise abortion-related complication severity, describe their management, and to report women's experience of abortion care in Africa. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was implemented in 210 health facilities across 11 sub-Saharan African countries. Data were collected on women's characteri…

  • Vaginal examinations and mistreatment of women during facility-based childbirth in health facilities

    Open AccessKwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Hedieh Mehrtash et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Previous research on mistreatment of women during childbirth has focused on physical and verbal abuse, neglect and stigmatisation. However, other manifestations of mistreatment, such as during vaginal examinations, are relatively underexplored. This study explores four types of mistreatment of women during vaginal examinations: (1) non-consented care, (2) sharing of private information, (3) exposure of genitalia and (4) exposure of br…

  • Abortion-related morbidity in six Latin American and Caribbean countries

    Open AccessMariana Romero, Rodolfo Gómez Ponce De León et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Abortion-related complications are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among women in many Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The objective of this study was to characterise abortion-related complication severity, describe the management of these complications and report women's experiences with abortion care in selected countries of the Americas region. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study of 70 health fac…

  • What’s needed to improve safety and quality of abortion care

    Open AccessHedieh Mehrtash, Caron Kim et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    box In the advent of safe methods, access to information and trained providers, abortion has become a very safe procedure; however, unsafe abortions continue to persist in many parts of the world. Unsafe abortions account for half of all abortions globally, with the majority occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and Caribbean (LAC).1 Severe abortion-related complications arise from least safe abortions.1 Between 2008 and 2013, it was …

  • How women are treated during facility-based childbirth in four countries

    Open AccessMeghan A Bohren, Hedieh Mehrtash et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2019

    BACKGROUND: Women across the world are mistreated during childbirth. We aimed to develop and implement evidence-informed, validated tools to measure mistreatment during childbirth, and report results from a cross-sectional study in four low-income and middle-income countries. METHODS: We prospectively recruited women aged at least 15 years in twelve health facilities (three per country) in Ghana, Guinea, Myanmar, and Nigeria between Sept 19, 2016…