Table 3.

Knowledge and cultural factors affecting male partner involvement in promoting skilled deliveries

Cultural/Knowledge factors	N=380	%
Babies should be kept in-doors till naming ceremony	25	32.9
Child-birth is a woman’s affair that does not require men participation	170	44.7
Placenta must be disposed secretly which is not possible with hospital delivery	147	38.7
Child-birth is natural phenomenon that should not be given much attention	153	40.3
Accompanying wife to hospital for delivery will result to the man being ridiculed	83	48.2