Publications by authors named "Ioana Nanu"
Background: Health workers' (HWs') perspectives on the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) are not routinely collected. In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to document HWs' perspectives on QMNC around childbirth in 12 World Health Organization (WHO) European countries.
Methods: HWs involved in maternal/neonatal care for at least one year between March 2020 and March 2023 answered an online validated WHO standards-based questionnaire collecting 40 quality measures for improving QMNC.
Article Synopsis
- A new study aims to determine how common child abuse is in sports across six European countries, focusing specifically on various types of interpersonal violence against children involved in organized sports.
- Researchers surveyed over 10,000 young adults aged 18-30 who played sports before age 18, utilizing a questionnaire (IVACS-Q) to measure experiences of neglect, psychological violence, physical violence, and sexual violence.
- Findings revealed high prevalence rates of violence in sports, with psychological violence being the most common (65%) and notable differences in reported experiences between males and females; this underscores the need for better prevention strategies in the sports sector.
Women's assessment of the quality of hospital-based perinatal care by mode of birth in Romania during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from the IMAgiNE EURO study.
Int J Gynaecol Obstet
December 2022
Objective: To assess women's perceptions of the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) received in hospitals in Romania during the COVID-19 pandemic by mode of birth.
Methods: A validated anonymous online questionnaire based on WHO quality measures. Subgroup analysis of spontaneous vaginal birth (SVB), emergency cesarean, and elective cesarean and multivariate analyses were performed, and QMNC indexes were calculated.
WHO Standards-based questionnaire to measure health workers' perspective on the quality of care around the time of childbirth in the WHO European region: development and mixed-methods validation in six countries.
BMJ Open
April 2022
Objectives: Develop and validate a WHO Standards-based online questionnaire to measure the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) around the time of childbirth from the health workers' perspective.
Design: Mixed-methods study.
Setting: Six countries of the WHO European Region.