شوهران و گزارش همسران از قدرت تصمیم گیری زنان در غرب گواتمالا و اثرات آنها بر رفتارهای بهداشتی پیشگیرانه

Consistent with other research, results show that relative to their husbands’ report, wives tend to under-report their household decision-making power. In couples with both partners educated and in couples in which women work for pay, both partners were significantly more likely to report that both of them participate in the final decisions than was the case in couples without education or in which the wife did not work for pay. Women's reports of their decision-making power was significantly related to the household having a plan for what to do in case of a maternal emergency, but was not associated with place of childbirth or with having a postpartum checkup, while husband's reports of the wife's decision-making power was negatively associated with the likelihood of having the last birth in a health facility.