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Erratum to: Auxiliary midwives in hard to reach rural areas of Myanmar: filling MCH gaps
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3747-9
© The Author(s). 2016
- Published: 12 October 2016
The original article was published in BMC Public Health 2016 16:914
Erratum
In the publication of this article [1], the following percentage symbols were accidentally missed out from the ‘Results’ and ‘Discussion’ sections:
Results
2. Becoming an auxiliary midwife: the pathways
…as 89 % reported…
3. AMW: contributions of and supports to AMW
…about 9 % of the respondents…
…such as technical supervision (99 %), refresher course (99 %), replenishment of AMW kits (96 %)…
4. AMW: Intention to stay
…if they needed to change their domicile (21 %)
Discussion
…Naturally in Myanmar, 39 % of AMWs…
Expected years to serve the community and potential reasons for quitting AMW job
Variables | Frequency | Percent |
|---|---|---|
Expected years to serve the community | ||
< 1 years | 12 | 1.1 |
1–3 years | 58 | 5.1 |
3–5 years | 39 | 3.5 |
> 5 years | 1019 | 90.3 |
Reasons for quitting AMW jobs | ||
Marriage | ||
May consider quitting jobs | 45 | 4.2 |
Not relevant to the decision of quitting jobs | 1023 | 95.8 |
Changing domicile | ||
May consider quitting jobs | 218 | 21.3 |
Not relevant to the decision of quitting jobs | 806 | 78.7 |
Having another permanent job | ||
May consider quitting jobs | 124 | 12.4 |
Not relevant to the decision of quitting jobs | 878 | 87.6 |
Cannot contribute to the community as much as expected | ||
May consider quitting jobs | 228 | 22.6 |
Not relevant to the decision of quitting jobs | 779 | 77.4 |
All the above have been updated in the original article.
Notes
Declarations
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Authors’ Affiliations
Reference
- Wangmo S, et al. Auxiliary midwives in hard to reach rural areas of Myanmar: filling MCH gaps. BMC Public Health. 2016;16:914. doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3584-x.View ArticlePubMedPubMed CentralGoogle Scholar
