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to explore the retention and attrition of pre-registration midwifery students.an exploratory, comparative design that enabled the comparison of a 3-year and a 78-week midwifery programme. The methodology was designed into two main phases using both quantitative and qualitative methodology.a university in the South West of England.36 questionnaires were sent to students who had left the programmes...
to investigate whether pregnant Swedish women used the Internet to retrieve pregnancy-related information, how they perceived the reliability of the information, and whether they discussed this information with their midwife during antenatal care visits.a descriptive, cross-sectional design using waiting-room questionnaires to obtain information from pregnant women attending 11 antenatal clinics in...
to investigate the use of local anaesthetics, in the presence or absence of vasoconstrictors, for perineal repair during spontaneous delivery.double-blind, randomised-controlled trial.a birth centre, in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil.from June to December 2004, a total of 96 women were allocated into three groups (first-degree perineal lacerations, second-degree perineal lacerations or episiotomy),...
to develop an evidenced-based, women-centred care clinical guideline designed to assist midwives and other health-care providers in Japanese hospitals, clinics and midwifery offices, in identifying and supporting potential or actual perinatal victims of domestic violence.systematic review and critical appraisal of extant research; structured assessment of clinical guideline development.systematic...
to explore health-care professionals’ views about safety in maternity services. This paper identifies aspects of care that are less safe than they should be, possible ways to improve safety, and potential obstacles to achieving these improvements. This study was part of the King's Fund inquiry into the safety of maternity services in England.qualitative study with a sample of health-care professionals...
to gain an understanding of traditional postpartum practices for women and babies, and to investigate the factors influencing such practices.descriptive study.Maternity and Children's Hospital in Adıyaman city, Turkey.273 women who gave birth at the Maternity and Children's Hospital in Adıyaman city from March to June 2004.more than half of the 273 women (55.7%) were aged between 25 and 32 years (mean...
to explore the feelings of depression during pregnancy of a local sample of women living in an area of socio-economic deprivation, and to identify the support mechanisms that they report as personally or potentially helpful for antenatal depression.a retrospective study using a qualitative approach, informed by constructivism, to explore the participants’ individual experiences of depression during...
to ascertain the reasons why mothers choose to have a home birth and the factors that influence these reasons.this cross-sectional study involved 392 women and was conducted between June and September 2003 in a rural setting in Turkey. The data were collected using a questionnaire developed by the authors. The questionnaire included demographic information, obstetric background, the reasons for deciding...
to examine the effects of training, education and practice change interventions with health professionals and lay breast feeding educator/counsellors on duration of breast feeding.this was part of a series of reviews of interventions that affect duration of breast feeding. Full details of methods used, including search strategy, are reported separately.randomised controlled trials, non randomised...
to identify the antenatal taboos commonly practised by pregnant Hong Kong Chinese women; to explore the health beliefs behind these taboos; and to examine how pregnant women perceived and reacted to the cultural tradition.general ethnography and in-depth interviews, followed by a quantitative self-reported survey.Antenatal clinic of a university-affiliated hospital in Hong Kong.consecutive samples...
to compare the early breast-feeding behaviours of full-term newborns whose mothers had received epidural analgesia (EDA) during an uncomplicated labour, with a group of newborns whose mothers had not received EDA.a retrospective comparative study design was used and the study was carried out in a labour ward in Stockholm, Sweden between January 2000 and April 2000. The ward has about 5500 deliveries...
to describe women's lived experience of fear of childbirth.a qualitative study using a phenomenological approach and a lifeworld perspective. Data were collected via tape-recorded interviews.Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden in 2003.eight pregnant women (24–37 gestational weeks) seeking help within an outpatient clinic for women with severe fear of childbirth. Two of the women were...
to explore the longer-term effect of a problem-based learning (PBL) programme on midwives in practice.qualitative study. Graduates involved in an earlier study of the implementation of a PBL programme were interviewed between 5 and 6 years after graduating to explore the possible longer-term effect of a PBL programme on their practice as midwives.Thames Valley University with graduates who had completed...
We explore the position of midwifery in contemporary China, and draw on fieldwork conducted in Shanxi and Sichuan Provinces during 2005 and 2006, the available literature in English and to a lesser extent in Mandarin. We also explore the historical antecedents to the present-day professional status, practices and position within the health-care system of midwifery in China. We consider the effect...
(1) to identify the number of teenage pregnant women who also have mothers who became pregnant when they were in their teenage years and (2) to explore the importance of this intergenerational experience on the teenagers themselves, their significant family, friends and society as a whole.semi-structured interviews with the subjects allowed for both breadth and depth exploration.the total research...
to describe the development and application of a brief counselling intervention for women who have experienced a traumatic birth.the birthing trauma counselling model reflecting women's need to establish a therapeutic connection with a midwife, talk about their birth experience and have their feelings validated. Gaps in understanding of events need explanation and explicit connections made between...
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