Factors associated with negative birth experience in Peruvian Quechua‐speaking indigenous women in a context of contagion due to COVID‐19

Objective The aim of this study was to determine the factors associated with negative birth experience in Peruvian Quechua‐speaking indigenous women in the context of contagion due to COVID‐19. Methods This was a cross‐sectional study, with 142 women from the Olleros community (Huaraz‐Peru, 3336 m a.s.l.), whose birth occurred between November 2020 and December 2021. Two questionnaires were applied between January and June 2022, prior voluntary informed consent and approval by an ethics committee. The SPSS program version 24 and the odds ratio (OR) were used with 95% confidence interval (CI). Results A total of 62.7% of women (89/142) had a negative birth experience. The main factors associated were hospital and biosafety factors, highlighting the restriction to choose the position during birth (OR = 15.64, CI: 1.89–128.99, P = 0.001), care of women in a language other than Quechua (OR = 5.86, CI: 1.51–22.76, P = 0.005) and fear of health personnel when approaching women due to COVID‐19 (OR = 10.61, CI: 3.94–28.56, P