key: cord-0722340-l6nlylr7
authors: De La Cruz‐Ramirez, Yuliana M.; Olaza‐Maguiña, Augusto F.
title: Satisfaction of Quechua‐speaking indigenous pregnant women from a rural community in Peru with telemonitoring during the COVID‐19 pandemic
date: 2021-08-19
journal: Int J Gynaecol Obstet
DOI: 10.1002/ijgo.13848
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doc_id: 722340
cord_uid: l6nlylr7

Although the majority of Quechua‐speaking indigenous pregnant women are satisfied with telemonitoring during the COVID‐19 pandemic, there are still aspects to improve.

COVID-19 has restricted the face-to-face care of 88% of Peruvian pregnant women, 1 mainly in rural communities such as Atipayan (3364 masl, Huaraz), classified with an extreme alert level of contagion. 2 The authorities have implemented telemonitoring based on telephone calls since April 2020, but its application in rural areas has not been evaluated. The present research addressed the satisfaction of Quechua-speaking indigenous pregnant women from the Atipayan community with telemonitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cross-sectional research was carried out with 82 Quechuaspeaking indigenous pregnant women of any gestational age with low obstetric risk, as determined by the Atipayan health post staff, with a minimum of 16 weekly telemonitoring telephone calls. None of the pregnant women with low obstetric risk received face-to-face care due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, births did have to be at the Huaraz Hospital, a guideline that did not change during the pandemic.

The telemonitoring program was carried out by two midwives who were Quechua speakers, but this language was not their mother tongue. They worked at the aforementioned health post and they followed a standardized protocol for each telephone call with respect to the topics to be discussed, schedules, and duration. This 

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