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Objective: to describe the experience of postpartum care among Thai women in Melbourne, Australia.Design: ethnographic interviews and participant observation with women in relation to postpartum care and practices.Setting: Melbourne Metropolitan Area, Victoria, Australia.Participants: 26 Thai born women who gave birth in Australia.Findings: the Thai women had varying views about the length of time...
Objective: to develop an effective and efficient method for basing nursing practice on research evidence.Setting: the Royal Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.Method: nurses and midwives from various clinical areas were invited to participate in an evidence-based practice project. Standard procedures for retrieving relevant articles and evaluating their quality were observed. Where possible, raw...
The popular press is an influential medium for the communication of messages and meanings about health and lifestyle issues (Lupton 1993). Through language and images, the print media present selected phenomena, events and issues to readers. The choice and connections between words used can impress upon the reader specific images of the world and the attitudes toward the presented issues and ideas...
Objective: to describe the experience of ten couples who have had a home birth in Western Australia.Design, setting and participants: using a phenomenological approach, ten parent couples were interviewed and three home-birth videos observed. Of the ten couples, four discussed their first child's home birth. The remaining six couples had three or four children who had been born at home.Findings: the...
Objective: to discover the expectations and experiences of childbirth preparation and childbirth of Swedish men in order to contribute to a basis of reflections in the midwifery professionDesign: three tape-recorded interviews were performed: before and after childbirth preparation, and between one and three weeks after the baby was born.Setting: Swedish maternity care.Participants: eleven men who...
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