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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"B720 - Midwifery"”.
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'Becoming mother': An ethnography of a free-standing birth centre
… around the birth process within a free-standing midwifery-led birth centre (FSBC). It was done to shed light on the workings of this little known model of maternity service provision and to build on the small amount of qualitative research in this field to date. Using ethnography, I undertook …
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Maternal experiences of preterm birth and neonatal intensive care
This study investigates the experiences of mothers of pretenn infants undergoing intensive care in 3 local NHS Trusts, utilising a pre-existing questionnaire (PSS; NTCU, Miles et aL, 1993) and a semi-structured interview based on some of the theories associated with stress, coping and adaptation to …
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The experience of pain in the context of childbirth for Hong Kong Chinese women: a longitudinal cohort interview study
Childbirth, the biggest life event for a woman, is a complicated process. Childbirth pain not only involves physiological sensations, but also psychosocial and cultural factors. In addition, the way the woman handles the pain is affected by the meaning she attributes to it. In order to understand …
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A longitudinal study of the cognitive and social development of preterm infants
Technological advances are enabling increasingly premature infants to survive and it is this particularly vulnerable population that are exposed, often for prolonged periods of time, to the hazards of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit environment which can have adverse developmental consequences. …
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Perspectives on intimacy during pregnancy
This study explores four different perspectives of patterns of intimacy during pregnancy. Intimacy is a complex concept and, as a consequence of this, much of the research previously conducted has restricted its focus to a particular aspect of intimacy. Characteristically, it has also taken …
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A hero's tale of childbirth: An interpretive phenomenological study of traumatic and positive childbirth
Childbirth is an emotional and physical experience, which may have permanent or longterm positive or negative consequences. Key predictive factors of traumatic and positive childbirth have been previously identified. Criticisms however have been levied towards the pre-dominantly quantitative-based, …
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"Conceptions of midwifery" A study of forms of knowledge and values foundational for midwifery
Knowledge acquisition and the values inherent in midwifery form the major focus of this study. Particular emphasis is placed upon the value of experience in clinical practice to provide a sound methodological framework for knowledge acquisition. The concept of intuition is explored in relation to …
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Engaging with the ‘modern birth story’ in pregnancy: A hermeneutic phenomenological study of women’s experiences across two generations
This in-depth qualitative study considered how women from two different generations came to understand birth in the context of their own experience but also in the milieu of other women’s stories. For the purposes of this thesis the birth story (described as the ‘modern birth story’) encompassed …
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A realist investigation of the impact of Healthy Start on the diets of low-income pregnant women in the UK
Healthy Start is the United Kingdom government’s food voucher programme for low-income, pregnant women and young children. Eligible women receive vouchers worth £3.10 per week, which can be exchanged for fruit and vegetables, plain cow’s milk or infant formula. There has been no robust evaluation …