Table 1.
Items for person-centered abortion care scale in Kenya
| Original Domain | Question | Referred to in text as: | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dignity/Respect | How did you feel about the amount of time you waited? | Time to care | Retained for both |
| Dignity/Respect | During your time in this clinic did the doctors, nurses, or other health care providers introduce themselves to you when they first came to see you? | Introduce self | Retained for both |
| Dignity/Respect | Did the doctors, nurses, or other health care providers call you by your name? | Called by name | Retained for both |
| Dignity/Respect | Did the doctors, nurses, or other staff at the facility treat you with respect? | Treated with respect | Retained for both |
| Dignity/Respect | Did the doctors, nurses, and other staff at the facility treat you in a friendly manner? | Friendly | Retained for both |
| Dignity/Respect | During your time in the health facility, would you say you were treated differently because of any personal attribute … like your age, marital status, number of children, your education, wealth, your connections with the facility, or something like that? | Treated differently | Retained for both |
| Dignity/Respect | Did the doctors, nurses, and other staff at the facility show that they cared about you? | Cared | Retained for both |
| Dignity/Respect | Did you feel the doctors, nurses, or other health providers shouted at you, scolded, insulted, threatened, or talked to you rudely? | Verbal abuse | Retained for both |
| Dignity/Respect | Did you feel like you were treated roughly like pushed, beaten, slapped, pinched, physically restrained, or gagged? | Physical abuse | Retained for both |
| Privacy/Confidentiality | When you were speaking to the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility, did you feel other people not involved in your care could hear what you were discussing? | Privacy | Retained for both |
| Privacy/Confidentiality | Do you feel like your health information was or will be kept confidential at this facility? | Record confidentiality | Retained for both |
| Autonomy | Did you feel like the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility involved you in decisions about your abortion care? | Involvement in care | Retained for both |
| Autonomy | Did the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility ask your permission/consent before doing procedures on you? | Consent before procedures | Retained for both |
| Communication | Did the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility speak to you in a language you could understand? | Language understand | Deleted for both |
| Communication | Did the doctors and nurses explain to you why they were doing examinations or procedures on you? | Explain exams | Retained for both |
| Communication | Did the doctors and nurses explain to you why they were giving you any medicine, including pain medicine or medicine to start an abortion? | Explain medicines | Retained for both |
| Communication | Did you feel you could ask the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility any questions you had? | Ask questions | Retained for both |
| Supportive Care | Did the doctors and nurses at the facility talk to you about how you were feeling? | Ask about feeling | Retained for both |
| Supportive Care | Did the doctors and nurses ask how much pain you were in? | Ask about pain | Retained for both |
| Supportive Care | Do you feel the doctors or nurses did everything they could to help control your pain? | Pain medication given | Retained among SA sub-group; Deleted among MA sub-group |
| Supportive Care | Did you feel the doctors and nurses paid attention to you during your stay in the facility? | Paid attention | Retained for both |
| Supportive Care | During your time at the facility, did any staff at the facility ask you or your family for kitu kidogo [unofficial cost]? | Bribe | Deleted for both |
| Supportive Care | Do you think there was enough health staff in the facility to care for you? | Enough staff | Retained for both |
| Supportive Care | Did you feel the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility took the best care of you? | Took best care | Retained for both |
| Supportive Care | Did you feel you could completely trust the doctors, nurses or other staff at the facility with regards to your care? | Trust | Retained for both |
| Supportive Care | In general, did you feel safe in the health facility? | Safe | Retained for both |
Adapted from Afulani et al.,[15]