Table 3.

Selected health worker attitudes about maternity care, by cadre (survey results)

Survey item	Percent agreement (strongly agree or agree)
	MO	RN	EN	All
Sometimes you have to yell at a woman in labor because she is not pushing hard enough (n = 277).	15.3%	51.8%	51.1%	137 (49.4%)
Sometimes pinching or slapping a woman in labor can succeed in getting her to push harder (n = 272).	–	32.9%	30.5%	82 (30.1%)

MO Medical officer; RN Registered nurse; EN Enrolled nurse