Abstract

Background: The location and person who help the baby delivery would directly affect mothers’ health.

Objective: To identify factors related to the home delivery attended by the midwives in the Health Center of Mawasangka, Middle Buton Regency.

Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with 100 mothers as participants who met the inclusive criteria, and they were chosen by using the purposive sampling technique.

Result: The result showed that respondents who chose to give birth at home with and without assistance of the midwives were 78 (78%) and 22 (22%) respondents, respectively. The statistical analysis using the 2-test showed that the factors significantly related to the utilization of the midwives’ assistance in the home delivery were the attitudes (p = 0.002

Key words: Utilization analysis, home delivery, midwives