Showing papers in "Midwifery in 2014"

TL;DR: Discussion with midwives is an important source of information for women during pregnancy and the internet did not play a significant role in information seeking for more than half of the women in the study.

TL;DR: Poor physical health in the early postnatal period is associated with poorer mental health throughout the first 12 months post partum, and early intervention to promote maternal mental health should incorporate assessment and intervention to address common postnatal physical health problems.

TL;DR: This paper explored community and health-care provider attitudes towards maltreatment during delivery in rural northern Ghana, and compared findings against The White Ribbon Alliance's seven fundamental rights of childbearing women.

TL;DR: It is indicated that resilience is a complex phenomenon, which warrants serious consideration from clinical midwives, managers, educators and researchers.

TL;DR: How a traumatic birth experience can lead to women being drawn into a turmoil of devastating emotions that have long-term, negative repercussions on self-identity and relationships is revealed.

TL;DR: This study differentiates Criterion A1 and A2 to explore their individual relationship to prevalence rates for posttraumatic stress, each other, and associated factors for childbirth trauma.

TL;DR: The weight of evidence supported an association between high environmental temperature and preterm birth, however, the degree of association varied considerably, and it is not clear what factors influence this relationship.

TL;DR: This paper explored the factors associated with negative birth experiences in South African public maternity settings from the perspective of women 0s birth narratives, and found that more than half of the women narrated narratives of distress in relation to their birth experiences.

TL;DR: Results showed that women who exclusively breast fed to six months postpartum exhibited higher intention to exclusively breastfeed, breastfeeding self-efficacy, comfort breastfeeding in public, perceived physical strength and reported less perceived breastfeeding difficulties.

TL;DR: The BSS-R would appear to be a robust, valid and reliable multidimensional psychometric instrument for measuring postnatal women's birth satisfaction.

TL;DR: Identification of attributes, antecedents, and consequences of father support may assist practitioners to reflect on current working practices and service delivery models, and offer important educational opportunities for the training of student midwives and other health professionals.

TL;DR: The importance of providing professional postnatal care to first-time mothers after their discharge from the hospital is highlighted and new practices are needed to enhance the quality of maternity health care and promote positive maternal experiences and well-being in Singapore.

TL;DR: The findings in this review suggest that transition to motherhood is considered a pivotal and paradoxical life event that can be interpreted as an existentially changing event, reorganising values and what makes life worth living, and to some women also being interpreted as a spiritual experience.

TL;DR: Students who were more fearful of birth preferred epidural anaesthesia and birth by CS, and Worries over physical changes following pregnancy and birth, favourable attitudes towards obstetric technology, and exposure toregnancy and birth information via the media were significantly associated with a preference for CS.

TL;DR: Cultural competent health-care intervention should be developed during early motherhood to promote perceived social support and parenting self-efficacy for the new mothers.

TL;DR: Qualitative research studies that explore the perceptions of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, and lived experiences of migrant women in their new home country and four major themes were identified as common in all the qualitative studies.

TL;DR: A high prevalence of CAM use during pregnancy is found in the UK, which is within the range of findings of studies from Australia and Germany, and is able to provide pregnant women with appropriate advice regarding CAM use.

TL;DR: To implement woman-centered care, to enhance access to maternity services, and to promote immigrant women's health, it is important to consider these women's social position, cultural knowledge and beliefs, and traditional customs in the health care.

TL;DR: The main reasons given for requesting caesarean section show that there is urgent need for effective antenatal assessment to enable pregnant women to ask questions and express their concerns, and there is a need to develop antenatal education and strategies to enhance women's knowledge, confidence and competence about vaginal birth.

TL;DR: A prospective longitudinal study to examine predictors of birth-related trauma - predictors that included a range of pre-event factors - as a first step in the creation of a screening questionnaire for women at risk of developing birth- related PTSD.

TL;DR: First-time fathers experienced a range of emotions from being happy and excited to feeling shocked and worried and to feeling calm and Adaptive and supportive behaviours were adopted to deal with the pregnancy changes and better support their wives.

TL;DR: Findings suggest the importance of ensuring that the safety and quality of intrapartum interventions and models of postnatal care are enhanced, to reduce or prevent subsequent implications of an acute medical event on women and their families.

TL;DR: This special issue of Midwifery focusses on fear of childbirth and postnatal PTSD in order to inform understanding and hence prevention and treatment of mental health problems that women can suffer from.

TL;DR: The development of a shortened 10-item version of the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire (S-PBQ) is described and a socio-economic bias such that women who were older, more educated, not living in poverty, and married reported lower bonding scores was revealed.

TL;DR: VoorZorg seemed to be effective in reducing cigarette smoking and in increasing breastfeeding duration and no effect was found on pregnancy outcomes.

TL;DR: Qualitative study at a maternity unit in Norway found midwives' skill in building a relationship with the woman in labour combined with their values and understanding of the midwifery profession are important factors influencing their decision to provide a continuous presence during childbirth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the differences in psychological well-being and quality of life during pregnancy and post partum of obese physically active women and obese physically inactive women enroled in a weight gain restriction program.

TL;DR: The philosophical underpinning of critical realism is explored and argued for to be more widely adopted by midwifery researchers, using the exemplar of dystocia research as an example.

TL;DR: Integration of disability into existing Skilled Birth Attendant training curricula may improve maternal health care for disabled women in rural Nepal.

TL;DR: Examining women's experiences of labour pain within the perspective of modern pain science suggests that a woman's state of mind during labour may set the stage for the cognitive and evaluative processes that construct and give meaning to her pain experience.