Disrespectful Behavior Research Articles

Period shaming behavior among male students in Luang Prabang Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic: A cross-sectional study.

Period shaming is defined as any negative and/or disrespectful behavior in relation to the menstrual cycle and menstruating girls. It is suggested that period shaming may limit girls' potential and ability to fully participate in school and community activities. This study aims to examine the prevalence and factors associated with period shaming among male students in Luang Prabang Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). This was a cross-sectional study which was conducted during November 19-27, 2020. This study included 1,232 male students from secondary school grade 9 to 12 in Luang Prabang Province, Lao PDR. Informed consent was obtained from the participants, parents/guardians, and teachers prior to data collection. The data was collected by a self-administered questionnaire. Logistic regression was employed to examine factors associated with period shaming behavior among male students. The mean age of the participants was 16.4 years old. Of all the male students, 18.8% admitted that they had shamed girls during their menstruation at least once. Of those who committed period shaming, they shamed girls some of the times (63.2%). Male students who had consumed alcohol during the last month before the data collection day (AOR = 1.83, 95% CI 1.32-2.55, P<0.001), had heard of menstruation (AOR = 1.76, 95% CI 1.27-2.44, P<0.001), and those who had attended activities/classes about sexual reproductive health (AOR = 1.90, 95% CI 1.29-2.78, P<0.01), were significantly associated with period shaming behavior. In conclusion, a single focus on providing biological health education may not be enough to address menstrual stigmatization and taboos. The school curriculum should integrate other life skill education with reproductive health, such as respect and gender equality, to encourage behavioral changes among male students, to address menstrual stigma and to support and empower girls' menstrual health at school and in the community.

"What Is so Amazing about All This?": Buddhist Criticism of Christianity in Sixteenth-/Seventeenth-Century Japan

abstract: The first Christian missionaries arrived in Japan in the middle of the sixteenth century. They missionized quite a number of Japanese people but also angered many through their disrespectful behavior and destruction of temples and shrines. Less than 100 years later, Japan closed its borders, persecuted Christians, and banned Christianity in total. The reasons for this drastic step weren't solely political but also theological. Theological arguments concerning theism, eschatology, ethics, and theology of religion are found in official edicts, in "disputes" between Christian missionaries and Buddhist scholars, as well as in theological treatise. One of the reoccurring arguments against Christianity includes the description of the arrogant behavior of the missionaries. According to the documents, they displayed an attitude of knowing everything concerning the world next to the ignorant Buddhists. This exclusivist mindset wasn't compatible with the order of Japan and the three teachings. In the eyes of the authorities, this doctrine secured peace and ensured domestic stability. Especially the Japanese and former Christian Fabian Fucan, as well as the Buddhist monk Suzuki Shōsan, adduce various Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist teachings against the charge of ignorance. Conversely, Fucan's writing, as well as the edicts, records of religious "disputes," and other treatises, include the accusation that Christianity does not contain any new doctrine advancing the local one. Moreover, it is stated that Christian salvation exclusivism suggests a powerless God, and the missionaries were described as hypocrites and liars, as they did not keep their commandments.

Implementation of Peer Messengers to Deliver Feedback: An Observational Study to Promote Professionalism in Nursing.

The Co-Worker Observation System (CORS) is a tool and a process to address disrespectful behavior through feedback from trained peer messengers. First used by physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs), CORS has been shown to decrease instances of unprofessional behaviors among physicians and APPs. The research team assessed the feasibility and fidelity of implementing CORS for staff nurses. CORS was implemented at three academic medical centers using a project bundle with 10 essential implementation elements. Reports of unprofessional behavior among staff nurses that were submitted through the institution's electronic reporting system were screened through natural language processing software, coded by trained CORS coders using the Martinez taxonomy, and referred to a trained peer messenger to share the observations with the nurse. A mixed methods, observational design assessed feasibility and fidelity. A total of 590 reports from three sites were identified by the Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy from September 1, 2019, through August 31, 2021. Most reports included more than one problematic behavior, each of which was coded. Of the peer messages, 76.5% were successfully documented using the debriefing survey as complete, 2.2% as awaiting messenger feedback, and 0.2% as awaiting messenger assignments (total of 78.9 % considered delivered). A total of 21.1% were not shared; 4.7% of reports were intentionally not shared because the issue stemmed from a new system or policy implementation (4.0%) or because of known factors affecting the nurse (0.7%). CORS can be implemented with staff nurses efficiently when nursing infrastructure is adequate.

Incivility and psychological safety in youth sport: the reciprocal effects and its impact on well-being and social outcomes

ABSTRACT Youth can often be the subject of rude and discourteous behaviors in their sport setting, given their susceptibility to the social environments. Incivility refers to insensitive behavior that exhibits a lack of respect for others, namely, disrespectful and rude behaviors. Incivility is a significant issue in youth sport since it negatively influences teams and individuals. The present study aims to investigate 1) how incivility and psychological safety are associated with each other over time and 2) the influence of the initial value of psychological safety and the change in psychological safety on youth athletes’ well-being and social outcomes. Three-wave time-lagged data collection was employed, and the present study included 283 youth athletes who completed the survey three times. The hypotheses were tested in SEM with cross-lagged panel and growth latent curve modeling. The results showed that coach and teammate incivility were significantly associated with the change in psychological safety. In contrast, the initial value of psychological safety was a significant antecedent of the subsequent coach and teammate incivility, well-being, and social outcomes. Lastly, the change in psychological safety was significantly associated with youth athletes’ well-being and social outcomes. The findings suggest that incivility and psychological safety were reciprocally associated, and psychological safety rather than incivility was a significant predictor of youths’ well-being and social outcomes. The present study found a mechanism underlying the relationship between incivility, psychological safety, and essential outcomes (i.e., well-being and social outcomes) in youth sport.

Differential Racialization and Police Interactions among Young Adults of Asian Descent

This qualitative study examined how inclusion or exclusion from the boundaries of “Asian-ness” shaped how young adults of Asian origin experienced and navigated police encounters. Respondents’ accounts suggest that being racialized as Asian guarded against aggression and disrespectful tone and behaviors from the police, attributing neutral police treatment to generalizations about Asians as docile, law-abiding, and non-threatening. However, those who described being racialized as something other than Asian reported more negative police treatment. I argue that the differential racialization of these young adults led to divergent policing experiences via status construction. How individuals interact with each other is partly shaped by their perceived racial-ethnic status. However, how others classify one’s racial-ethnic status does not necessarily follow the ethno-racial pentagon. Thus, these findings elucidate how racialization processes reproduce inequality within—not merely between—existing monolithic racial-ethnic categories.

The Behavior of Tik Tok Users in Palopo City and Responses to the Qur'an

Tik Tok is a new platform that young people love, and kids are no exception. This platform encompasses all levels of society, including adults and even the elderly. TikTok has both positive and negative sides like any other medium. Therefore, this study aims to determine the understanding of the community, especially the people of Palopo, about the benefits of Tik Tok and how to use it. This research is a field study with the people of Palopo city as informants for interviews and documentation. As a result, Tik Tok is used more than a means of entertainment, which sometimes leads to verbal and physical disrespectful behaviour. Some opinions say that Tik Tok is an online media short video that shows recordings of dancing and showing TikTok-er's genitals. The people of Palopo city consider TikTokers more for entertainment filled with dancing. Therefore, it is necessary to limit access to various media, including TikTok, so as not to be carried away by immoral behaviour. Thus, the Qur'an is the key and a solution to protect yourself by not showing your aurat. It means that Tik Tok may dive without showing aurat and indulgence in lust. For further researchers, it is necessary to research the effects caused by the application and the solution before and after being exposed to the syndrome.

Nearly One-Fourth of Physicians in Large Academic Medical Center Experienced Mistreatment

Nearly One-Fourth of Physicians in Large Academic Medical Center Experienced Mistreatment

Combining photo-elicitation and discourse analysis to examine adolescents\u2019 sexuality in rural Zambia

IntroductionThis article aimed to analyse constructions of adolescents’ sexualities and sexual health and the consequences of these discourses for adolescents’ exercise of their sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in rural Zambia.MethodsInterpretative repertoires, which is rooted in discursive psychology was used to analyse data from photo-elicitations interviews and focus group discussions. Our participants included 25 adolescents who participated in a SRHR intervention that aimed to reduce adolescents’ pregnancies and early marriages.ResultsWe identified three interpretative repertories: 1) sex is for mature people in which adolescents positioned themselves as ‘immature, and young to engage in sex; 2) gendered respectful behaviours in which what was considered disrespectful (and respectful) behaviour in relation to sexuality were strongly influenced by gender, and more clearly defined for girls than it was for boys. Sexuality was not only about individual choices but about being respectful to parents; and 3) acquiring and using knowledge about sexuality in which adolescents conflicted between having and applying SRHR knowledge.ConclusionThese repertories offer an important context that shape how adolescents negotiate, adopt and resist SRHR interventions. Future interventions that target adolescents’ SRHR must aim to address the sexual scripts that serve to erect barriers against positive sexual behaviours, including access to SRHR services that promote safer sex.

Drivers of showrooming behaviour: insights from integrated perspectives

PurposeThe paper investigates shoppers' justification behind the showrooming behaviour and proposes an integrated SOR-MOA framework and a SAP-LAP model for a better understanding of the showrooming phenomenon.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopts a qualitative approach. A narrative-based examination followed by an inductive thematic analysis was employed to discover consumers' reasoning behind showrooming.FindingsThe results of the study affirmed the distinction between situational and intentional showrooming conduct. Situational factors have been classified across two categories: store-related (mismanagement at the store, assortment issues) and sales-personal related factors (disrespectful, rude, poor response and dishonest behaviour of the sales staff). However, factors corresponding to intentional showrooming conduct have been characterized as motivational (perceived value, past experience and perceived relative advantage), opportunity (retailer's support and services, channel availability and consumer empowerment) and ability (consumer skills)-related factors in aggregation with the stimulus organism response ideology. In addition, the study also highlights the consequences associated with the showrooming conduct of the shoppers.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings of the study need further exploration and examination through the adoption of a quantitative approach on a large sample size.Practical implicationsThe findings of the study can be utilized by offline retailers for devising strategies to counter showrooming customers and retain them as buyers.Originality/valueThe study emerges as the first piece of research to account for the ability and opportunity perspectives for better understanding of showrooming.

Revisiting respect for persons: conceptual analysis and implications for clinical practice

In everyday conversations, professional codes, policy debates, and academic literature, the concept of respect is referred to frequently. Bioethical arguments in recent decades equate the idea of respect for persons with individuals who are capable of autonomous decision-making, with the focus being explicitly on ‘autonomy,’ ‘capacity,’ or ‘capability.’ In much of bioethics literature, respect for persons is replaced by respect for autonomy. Though the unconditional respect for persons and their autonomy (irrespective of actual decision-making capacity) is established in Kantian bioethics, current argument and debates often revolve around a thin concept of autonomy, focusing on capacity and capability: persons are owed respect because they are ‘rational beings’ or with a focus on ‘agency’ and ‘decision-making abilities.’ However, these aspects alone are insufficient while engaging the concept of respect for persons, particularly in healthcare settings. This paper sets out to explore if the concept of respect for persons—as opposed to a thin concept of autonomy—could help us engage better in healthcare practices. We shall probe the practical value of the experiential aspect of respect—understood as the recognition of persons as respect-worthy through certain dispositions and deliberative acts—by reflecting on instances in clinical practice that tend to be dismissed as negligible or even unavoidable in a stressful environment such as a busy hospital. We shall argue that these instances are far from trivial but carry moral significance and express an unacceptable—disrespectful—attitude that can compromise the moral habitus in hospital settings. In our conclusion, we call for practicing recognition respect in the health professional–patient encounter by focussing on manners, attitudes, and behaviors. Furthermore, we call for continuous medical ethics education programs to address the moral significance of disrespectful behaviors and their manifestations in particular socio-cultural contexts.

Portrayal of Parent- Children Relationship in Television Drama Serials of Pakistan

Purpose: The current research investigates the portrayal of the parent- children relationship in prime-time entertainment television dramas of Pakistan. Relationship between parenting style and socio-economic status of the parents has been analyzed.&#x0D; Design/Methodology/Approach: Quantitative Content Analysis has been applied to measure the portrayal of parents in Drama serials. Top three entertainment channels ARY Digital, Hum TV and Geo TV were the targeted channels and parent-children based episodes were selected through purposive sampling. Out of 147 episodes, 308 scenes were selected. Scenes were coded on the predefined categories found in existing literature.&#x0D; Findings: The results showed that there was not much significant relationship found between socio-economic status of the parents and their parenting style. However, generation raised by parents with high socio-economic status showed submissive behavior towards their parents while the children raised by parents with low socio-economic status showed disrespectful behavior to their parents.&#x0D; Implications/Originality/Value: The findings suggest policy consideration to Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority regarding parents’ portrayal in drama serials. As respecting parents is our cultural value without any difference in socio economic status. But more materialistic approach is being projected in TV channels which need a second thought as the social norms.

THE PROBLEMS TEACHERS EXPERIENCE IN PERFORMING THEIR TASKS

The purpose of this research is to show what problems teachers have experienced in the process of performing their tasks. The study group of this research, a qualitative study, consists of 29 teachers in primary schools and secondary schools in Samsun İli Salıpazarı District National Education Directorate in 2019-2020 academic year. The data of the research is determined by the sample method. The research uses a semi-structured interview form as a data collection tool. Qualitative data analysis methods (descriptive and content) were used in the analysis of the data obtained from the conversation. The study asked questions about teachers, management, teachers, parents, students and the environment. When the research results were examined, many of the teachers said that the problems arising from managers were in the first place that managers had unjust attitude and behavior among teachers. The second biggest problem is that the language and attitude that managers use to communicate with teachers is harsh and rude. The problem with their colleagues was that teachers were not sharing and they were self-centered, and the second problem was that some teachers were trying to displace their responsibilities and put their responsibilities on their zumers. It was stated that the parents and students were not responsible for their problems with parents and students at the beginning. The second problem in favor of the student was the disrespectful attitude and behavior that the parent and the student demonstrated against the teacher. The overall reputation of environmental problems and the low societal structure around the school is expressed as low socio-economic structure and poor physical conditions of the school, small classrooms, lack of school gardens and playgrounds, lack of laboratory and gym, music, painting and workshops.

Examining intersectionality in anesthesiology training, academics, and practice.

Intersectionality, or the overlapping nature of social categorizations, such as race, class, and gender, creates interdependent systems of discrimination, disadvantage, and health disparities. The present review examines common shortcomings to diversity management, and proposes targeted improvement frameworks for anesthesiology departments that would offer competitive advantage in training, hiring, and retention, and improved care delivery aimed toward reducing health disparities. Studies highlight that physicians equipped to care for diverse populations enhance patient-doctor interactions and reduce health disparities. Moreover, untrained providers and staff who engage in disrespectful behaviors like microaggressions can lead to staff turnover and millions of dollars in lost revenue. Underrepresented minorities continue to have lower faculty academic rank in anesthesiology, fewer partnership opportunities in private practice, and disparate research funding. Diversity-based education and training often overlooks intersectionality and reductively illustrates diverse groups as internally homogenous. Even these developing diversity efforts have become politicized and are perceived as uninteresting, irrelevant to medical practice, or unable to create organizational change. The synergy of intersectionality mounts considerable challenges that impact patients, colleagues, and communities of practice. Examining intersectionality in education and workplace policy affords tremendous opportunity for improving quality of care for marginalized populations, reducing healthcare costs, and normalizing culture that is inclusive, equitable, and empowering.

The IDEAL approach to establish contemporary maternity care during labor.

The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of abusive and disrespectful behavior from healthcare workers toward women during childbirth, to determine the type of abuse with the highest prevalence, and to assess the factors that contributed to the prevalence of abuse and disrespectful behavior. This is a quantitative observational cross-sectional study that was conducted among mothers who gave birth in a tertiary hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from September 2019 to mid-March 2020, with a target sample size of 261. Descriptive statistics were described by frequencies and percentages, bivariate statistical analysis was carried out by using Chi-square test. The overall prevalence of disrespect and abuse (D&A) was 62.5%, the non-consented category was the commonest type in this study. D&A was 2.8 times more prevalent in women whose newborn suffered complications during delivery. Likewise, mothers who delivered in a room with 5 or more caregivers were 2 times more likely to be disrespected than others. Mothers who underwent a natural delivery without episiotomy were 53% less likely to face the risk of being disrespected than others. This study reveals that the prevalence of disrespect and abuse towards women during labor in the chosen setting was high. The type of delivery, number of caregivers present, and complications that occurred during delivery were significantly associated with disrespect and abuse. Therefore, the authors of this study present an IDEAL approach as a way to upgrade the maternity care standards.

Nasilje na radu nad ljekarima porodične medicine kao dio globalnog fenomena u sektoru zdravstva

Objective. Violence against healthcare workers is a significant global problem and is prevalent in both developed and underdeveloped countries. In the Republika Srpska, there is also a problem of violence against health workers and it occurs in the public and private health sector. Most attacks come from patients or their family members who have a mental illness or have harmful behavioral habits such as alcohol or drug abuse. Aim of the work is to examine the prevalence of violence at work against family medicine doctors, the most common forms of violence, the consequences of violence on the professional work of doctors, as well as prevention measures. Methods. The research was conducted in 16 health institutions in the Republika Srpska in the period from January to December 2018 according to the type of cross-sectional study on a randomized sample of 287 respondents, doctors who worked in the service of family medicine. The research instrument was a specially created questionnaire that was created for this research, and the obtained data were statistically processed in the program package SPSS 19. Results. Doctors of both sexes participated in the research, and the majority of respondents were women, 77,8% of them, while 22,2% were men. The majority of respondents are employed in public health care, 97,11% of them. Of the total number of doctors surveyed, 84,48% of them experienced violence at work during their working life. The analysis of the representation of certain types of violence showed that the most common form of violence is verbal violence in the percentage of 40,7%. A total of 73,62% of respondents believe that violence at work affects further professional work. Conclusion. Violence at work against family medicine doctors in Republika Srpska is significant. The most common forms of violence are verbal violence and rude or disrespectful behavior, and as the most important prevention measures, family medicine doctors point out a lower workload with the number of examinations, the introduction of stricter criminal liability for offenders and the introduction of the status of an official.

Od moralnih vrijednosti do učinkovitosti javnog zdravstva

The COVID-19 pandemic has put every contemporary society in front of various challenges. While those are often reflected and explained through economic, political or medical lenses, it seems that thorough ethical and bioethical insights are too rarely exposed and made explicit. This article tries to contribute to the neglected sphere of interconnection and interrelatedness of basic moral values and general, primarily public health, challenges. Moreover, it will be argued that by deeply disrespectful behaviour of chief institutions and inappropriate communication to the overall community (citizens) the value of elementary trust and respectfulness has been eroded, betrayed, and consequently brings to the plethora of economic, political, medical, and other challenges and troubles. The key argument is that the effectiveness of the public health measures is primarily rooted in stable and publicly communicated basic values, such as life and health, but the stability and communication of those values lays mostly in moral values such as trust, respect, fairness etc. One of the most important lessons this pandemic could give the humanity is the almost self-evident, but often forgotten insight, that moral values are the necessary glue of all values needed for functional society (and generally functional global community on Earth). The examples will be taken from the Croatian example of social, political, and institutional confrontation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health workers' disrespectful and abusive behaviour towards women during labour and delivery: A qualitative study in Durban, South Africa.

BackgroundA high prevalence of disrespectful and abusive behaviour by health workers towards women during labour and delivery has been widely described in health facilities, particularly in Africa, and is a worldwide public health concern. Such behaviours are barriers to care-seeking, and are associated with adverse outcomes for mothers and newborns. This paper reports experiences of disrespectful care among informal working women in three public health facilities in Durban, South Africa.MethodsA qualitative longitudinal study was conducted among a cohort of informal working women recruited during pregnancy in two clinics in Durban. The study comprised a series of in-depth interviews conducted at different time points from pregnancy until mothers had returned to work, followed by focus group discussions (FGDs) with cohort participants. We present data from participatory FGDs, known as ‘Journey with my Baby’, conducted at the end of the study, during which women’s experiences from pregnancy until returning to work were reviewed and explored. Thematic analysis was used with NVIVO v12.4.ResultsThree ‘Journey with my Baby’ FGDs were conducted with a total of 15 participants between March and October 2019. Many participants narrated experiences of disrespectful behavior from nurses during labour and childbirth, with several women becoming very distressed as a result. Women described experiencing rudeness and verbal abuse from nurses, lack of privacy and confidentiality, nurses refusing to provide care, being denied companionship and being left unattended for long periods during labour. Women described feeling anxious and unsafe while in the labour ward because of the behaviour they experienced directly and observed other patients experiencing. Such experiences created bad reputations for health facilities, so that women in the local community were reluctant to attend some facilities.ConclusionDisrespect and abuse continues to be a serious concern in public health facilities in South Africa. We challenge the health system to effectively address the underlying causes of disrespectful behavior among health workers, initiate robust monitoring to identify abusive behavior when it occurs, and take appropriate actions to ensure accountability so that women receive the high-quality maternity care they deserve.

Client, provider, and visit factors associated with quality in contraceptive counseling in Mexico: an exploratory cross-sectional analysis

BackgroundMonitoring clients’ experiences with contraceptive care is vital to inform quality improvement efforts and ensure fulfillment of individuals’ human rights. The Quality of Contraceptive Counseling (QCC) Scale is a previously validated scale that comprehensively measures individuals’ experiences receiving counseling in three subscales: Information Exchange, Interpersonal Relationship, and Disrespect and Abuse. We sought to better understand the correlation of client, provider, and visit factors with client-reported quality of contraceptive counseling in the public sector in two Mexican states using the QCC Scale.MethodsThis cross-sectional survey study used the QCC Scale total score and subscale scores as outcome variables. Explanatory variables included clients’ age, LGBTTTIQ status, relationship status, number of children, education, and occupation; providers’ gender and type of provider; and the reason for visit. Linear and logistic regression models assessed bivariate associations. Multivariable, multilevel mixed-effects models with clinic as a random effect were fit. All models used complete cases (n = 470).ResultsIn the multilevel mixed-effects analyses, patients aged 35+ years reported worse Information Exchange (coefficient − 0.29, p = 0.01). Clients receiving care post-partum reported worse Information Exchange (coefficient − 0.25, p = 0.02) and worse total scores (coefficient − 0.15, p = 0.04) compared to clients seeking contraceptive information or methods. Clients who had 1+ children reported better Information Exchange (coefficient 0.21, p = 0.01) than those with no children. Though Disrespect and Abuse subscale scores were overall high (indicating high quality of care), we found a significant association between age and report of such negative experiences: clients in increasing age categories had increasingly higher adjusted odds of reporting no disrespect and abuse (aORs compared to the youngest group were 2.50 for those aged 19–24 years, p = 0.04; 4.53 for those 25–34 years, p = 0.01; and 6.11 for those 35+ years, p = 0.01.)ConclusionsOur findings align with previous results that younger clients have lower adjusted odds of reporting high-quality services in Mexico. There is a need for continued work supporting youth-friendly services in Mexico, and efforts should aim to ensure zero tolerance for disrespectful or coercive provider behaviors, such as pressuring or scolding clients. Improvements are also needed to ensure quality in counseling for post-partum clients, those aged 35+ years, and those without children.

Psychometric Properties of the Classroom Observation of Engagement, Disrespectful and Disruptive Behaviors

In this study, the psychometric properties of the Classroom Observation of Engagement, Disrespectful and Disruptive Behavior (COEDD), a systematic direct observation coding protocol designed to assess common school-based behavioral targets, were examined. Interobserver agreement and criterion-related validity were evaluated in a sample of 155 kindergarten- through third-grade students. Interobserver agreement was high across categories and criterion-related validity was supported by correlations between the COEDD categories and teacher ratings of student behavior on well-established teacher rating scales. Together these findings support continued study of the COEDD as a tool for quantifying student classroom behavior. Impact Statement This paper addresses the dearth of psychometrically sound behavioral observational methods in school settings. In this study, preliminary psychometric properties of the Classroom Observation of Engagement, Disrespectful and Disruptive Behavior (COEDD), a systematic direct observation coding protocol designed to assess common school-based behavioral targets that are critical to student success, were assessed. Results explore the validity and reliability of the instrument, as well as its capacity to capture meaningful, usable data for school-based assessment of children.

Midwives' perceptions of disrespect and abuse of women during labour and childbirth in Lusaka, Zambia

Background/Aims Disrespect and abuse is a frequent occurrence in labour wards around the world. Disrespect and abuse during care by health workers can prevent pregnant women from seeking care during labour and childbirth, which can lead to increased maternal and neonatal mortality rates. This study aimed to explore midwives' perceptions of disrespect and abuse of women during labour and childbirth in Lusaka. Methods A concurrent convergent mixed-method approach was used for this study. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire given to 217 midwives actively practicing in maternal health services across Lusaka randomly sampled for the quantitative arm of the study. The data were analysed using bivariate and multivariate logistic regression, with P&lt;0.05 used to indicate significance. For the qualitative component of the study, 13 purposively selected key informants were interviewed with an interview guide. Results Most of the respondents (88.5%) perceived disrespect and abuse of women during labour and childbirth as a negative phenomenon. However, almost half (40.1%) had provided care which was disrespectful and abusive during their practice and the majority (68.7%) had observed disrespect and abuse by other midwives. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis found an association between midwives' perception of disrespect and abuse and witnessing or participating in disrespectful and abusive behaviour during practice. In the qualitative arm of the study, midwives reported that disrespect and abuse occurred in labour wards across Lusaka, demonstrating an urgent need to prevent such practices. Midwives suggested actions such as increased sensitisation and training of midwives on respectful maternity care and improved staffing levels as ways to prevent this practice Conclusions Disrespect and abuse of women during labour and childbirth should be prevented. Increasing health education and training for both the public and midwives on respectful maternity care can help to achieve this goal. Midwives need to be motivated through good working environments, increased wages and increased time to rest while working, as the heavy workload was found to contribute to disrespect and abuse in labour wards.