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Description: Women often go through psychological distress resulting from various stressors and demands that are difficult to cope with during pregnancy, delivery and immediate post-partum. This situation occasionally shapes acceptability maternal healthcare and various health professionals including midwives, doctors, psychologists or psychiatrists assist the most affected women. Nevertheless, the concept of acceptability of maternal healthcare is poorly understood by health researchers including psychology researchers to advance and support appropriate health practice in such circumstance. Moreover, there is a paucity of evidence about contextual understanding of how acceptability of maternal healthcare is defined and conceptualised in existing literature. Thus, this study aims to review existing literature to shed-light-on how the concept of maternal healthcare acceptability is defined and conceptualised. The specific objectives include: 1. To identify the gaps in defining the concept of maternal healthcare acceptability. 2. To explore the contextual understanding of maternal healthcare acceptability. 3. To ascertain the implication practices of maternal healthcare acceptability.