Özet:

Obstetric violence is a particular form of violence against women that violates human rights. Pregnancy is an important problem that can be seen in the postpartum and postpartum period and negatively affects both mother and baby’s health. Obstetric violence consists of acts, negligence and unrespectful treatment that physical and/or psychological harm to the woman during pregnancy, birth and postpartum during care in healthcare. Obstetric violence, which affects many countries around the world, removes women from quality care and affects their physical and mental health in a negative way. Obstetric violence elements encountered in the service offer; violation of reproductive rights, disturbance, joke, irony, insult, threat, humiliation, manipulation of information, the lack of effective and urgent medical care in time, negligence to requests or complaints, the lack of information of the woman in the decisions made in the stages of the birth act, the lack of respect for the honour of women, the pain management applied without the consent of women, the delay of the mother-baby contact, the prevention of breastfeeding. Health professionals need to provide quality and respectful services in order to avoid / reduce obstetric violence. For women who offer hopeful approaches to change the maternity care culture and who suffer from misbehavior during childbirth, legal changes in health care systems need to be made. The aim of this collection is to draw attention to the concept of "obstetric violence" which, according to literature, is not yet included in our country's laws and to raise the awareness of health workers about the obstetric violence that women experience.

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