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by exploring midwives' communication techniques intended to promote a wellness focus in the antenatal period, this study identified strategies midwives use to amplify women's own resources and capacities, with the aim of reducing antenatal anxiety.a qualitative design utilising focus groups as a means of generating data.two Australian cities: Canberra, ACT and Sydney NSW.14 experienced, practising...
birthing practices have changed drastically over the past century. It is now more common for women to birth in a hospital, receive drug interventions, and to birth via caesarean section, yet there is a paucity of research on long-term outcomes associated with practices. The research was designed to determine if there were any long-term effects of the birthing experience on child empathic behaviour...
research on intrapartum interventions in maternity care has focused traditionally on the identification of risk factors' and on the reduction of adverse outcomes with less attention given to the measurement of factors that contribute to well-being and positive health outcomes. We conducted a systematic review of reviews to determine the type and number of salutogenically-focused reported outcomes...
to explore women's perceptions and experiences of pregnancy and childbirth following birth of a macrosomic infant (birth weight ≥4000g).a qualitative design utilising interviews conducted 13–19 weeks post partum in women's homes. The study was conducted in one Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland between January and September 2010. Participants were identified from a larger cohort of women...
to compare the cost-effectiveness of two models of service delivery: Midwifery Group Practice (MGP) and baseline cohort.a retrospective and prospective cohort study.a regional hospital in Northern Territory (NT), Australia.baseline cohort included all Aboriginal mothers (n=412), and their infants (n=416), from two remote communities who gave birth between 2004 and 2006. The MGP cohort included all...
the study aimed at evaluating primiparous or multiparous mothers' perceptions of social support from nursing professionals (SSNP) in postnatal wards and factors associated with SSNP.a cross-sectional and correlational design was used.data was collected in 2007–2008 in two maternity hospitals with a convenience sample of Finnish-comprehending primiparous and multiparous mothers (N=1300). Multiple-birth...
risk perception in women with high risk pregnancies affects their decisions about perinatal care and is of interest to anyone involved in the care of pregnant women. This paper provides a metasynthesis of qualitative studies of risk perception in women with high risk pregnancies.a systematic search of eight electronic databases was conducted. Additional papers were obtained through searching references...
it is known that very few women who continue to smoke at the time of delivery stop smoking during the postpartum period. Discovering strategies that can be incorporated during pregnancy to help improve women's participation in postpartum interventions could increase the number of women non-smokers. The aim of this study is to identify the predictors of participation by pregnant women smokers in a...
the aim of this study was to explore how migration from Bangladesh to the UK influenced the transmission of knowledge and practice related to breast feeding from one generation to the next.this qualitative study used an ethnographic approach and comprised two focus group discussions with 14 grandmothers who had migrated from Bangladesh to the UK and in-depth interviews with 23 mothers of Bangladeshi...
Objective: to explore collaborative approaches undertaken to build midwifery education, regulation and professional association in low income countries and identify evidence of strategies that may be useful to scale-up midwifery to achieve MDG 5. Design: an integrative review involving a mapping exercise and a narrative synthesis of the literature was undertaken. The search included peer reviewed...
most pregnant women experience back pain during pregnancy, a serious issue that negatively impacts life quality during pregnancy. Research into an exercise intervention programme targeting low back pain and daily life interference is lacking.this study evaluates how a stability ball exercise programme influences low back pain and daily life interference across the second and third pregnancy trimester...
this literature review examines the experience of joy at birth and what that joy means. The premise is that the whole of the birthing experience has not been fully explicated in the literature and that something of significance remains unexplored and unspoken. It is argued that a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to reviewing literature provides unique insights and leads to deeper understandings...
maternal mortality estimates for South Africa have methodological weaknesses. This study uses the Growth Balance Method to adjust reported household female deaths and pregnancy-related deaths and the relational Gompertz model to adjust reported number of live births and estimate maternal mortality in South Africa at national and provincial level; examines the potential impact of HIV/AIDS prevalence;...
to describe the timing, type and duration of initial infant contact and associated demographic and clinical factors in addition to investigating the impact of early contact on breastfeeding and maternal health and well being after birth.data from a recent population survey of women birthing in Queensland, Australia were used to describe the nature of the first hold and associated demographic characteristics...
to compare weight development in an intervention group and a control group, six years after participation in a gestational weight-gain restriction programme.follow-up of a prospective intervention study.antenatal care clinics.a total of 129 women (88.4%) from the original intervention group and 166 women (88.8%) from the original control group.the women answered a study specific questionnaire, covering...
to describe the development of a shortened 10-item version of the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire (S-PBQ) and examine the relationship between birth-related, psychosocial, and emotional factors and maternal–infant bonding.cross-sectional interview study.women having their first baby in Pennsylvania, USA.we interviewed 3005 women in their third trimester and at one month post partum who were enroled...
to examine the changes in and relationship between perceived social support and parenting self-efficacy in the perinatal period among pregnant women in mainland China.this was a secondary analysis with data from part of an experimental study of the effects of an interpersonal-psychotherapy-oriented childbirth psychoeducation programme on maternal adaptation. A longitudinal design was employed in the...
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