Abstract

Background: The location and person who help the baby delivery would directly affect mothers’ health.
Objective: To identify factors related to the home delivery attended by the midwives in the Health Center of Mawasangka, Middle Buton Regency.
Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with 100 mothers as participants who met the inclusive criteria, and they were chosen by using the purposive sampling technique. Result: The result showed that respondents who chose to give birth at home with and without assistance of the midwives 2 χ were 78 (78%) and 22 (22%) respondents, respectively. The statistical analysis using the -test showed that the factors significantly related to the utilization of the midwives’ assistance in the home delivery were the attitudes ( p = 0.002<0.05), the supports of the family (p = 0.001<0.05), the supports of the healthcare workers (p = 0.013<0.05), and the perception of the felt need for health (p = 0.010<0.05). Meanwhile, the factors which were not significantly related to the utilization of the midwives’ assistance in the home delivery were the opinions of the family ( p = 1.000>0.05), the knowledge (p = 0.992>0.05), and the cost of the delivery (p = 0.209>0.05). The attitude was the dominant factor related to the utilization of the midwives’ assistance in the home delivery, which was 13.992 times greater than any other factors. Conclusion: There was a relationship between attitude, family support, health worker’s support, and the perception of health need with the utilization of home delivery by midwives assistance. While the family income, knowledge, and labor cost conversely (did not have significant relationship), the most dominant factor was attitude.