Strengths
This is the first study that assessed women and their healthcare
providers’ awareness, knowledge, and practices on maternal perception of
fetal movement in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It benefited
from both quantitative and qualitative methods, however, to improve
understanding, the scope could have been widened to include the views of
FMs within the community and other clinical settings. Also, the
questionnaires used may have been biased towards agreeable responses and
might not reflect true opinions and practices, hence the usefulness of
FGDs.