Do women prefer caesarean sections? A qualitative evidence synthesis of their views and experiences

Mercedes Colomar; Newton Opiyo; Carol Kingdon; Qian Long; Soledad Nion; Meghan A. Bohren; Ana Pilar Betran

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0251072

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Do women prefer caesarean sections? A qualitative evidence synthesis of their views and experiences

Mercedes Colomar ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: mcolomar@unicem-web.org

Affiliation Montevideo Clinical and Epidemiological Research Unit, Montevideo, Uruguay

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7424-5551

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Newton Opiyo,

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Carol Kingdon,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Community Health and Midwifery, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom
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Qian Long,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China
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Soledad Nion,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Social Sciences, Sociology Department, Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo, Uruguay
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Meghan A. Bohren,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Gender and Women’s Health Unit, Centre for Health Equity, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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Ana Pilar Betran

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Do women prefer caesarean sections? A qualitative evidence synthesis of their views and experiences

Mercedes Colomar,
Newton Opiyo,
Carol Kingdon,
Qian Long,
Soledad Nion,
Meghan A. Bohren,
Ana Pilar Betran

Published: May 5, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251072

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