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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Maternity care"”.
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Reconsidering Evidence: Evidence-based Practice and Maternity Care in Canada
… as a scientific and objective approach to health care. Enthusiastic acceptance of EBP within maternity care appears to have had unexpected effects on the care of childbearing women. This qualitative study of an interprofessional group of maternity care providers explores EBP from a critical …
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Mother's social constructions of male involvement in maternity care in Chinsali District
… been gaps in research on male involvement in maternity care. The views of women regarding what they consider to be the roles of men in maternity care have largely been neglected. Purpose: To explore mother’s social constructions, from their lived experiences, regarding male involvement during …
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Mother's social constructions of male involvement in maternity care in Chinsali District
… been gaps in research on male involvement in maternity care. The views of women regarding what they consider to be the roles of men in maternity care have largely been neglected. Purpose: To explore mother’s social constructions, from their lived experiences, regarding male involvement during …
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Female genital mutilation (FGM): An analysis of the silences in maternity care experiences of FGM survivors and the silences of health care professionals providing maternity care to FGM survivors
… but the experiences of FGM survivors accessing maternity care are under-reported in the literature. This thesis reports on the analysis of experiences of FGM survivors in maternity care and the experiences of health care professionals providing such care. This qualitative study was …
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Voicing the silence: the maternity care experiences of women who were sexually abused in childhood.
… of males. As most women do not disclose to healthcare professionals, midwives may unwittingly care for women who have been sexually abused. The purpose of this study was to address the gap in our understanding of women’s maternity care experiences when they have a history of childhood sexual abuse …
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Valuing maternity care: a comparison of stated preference methods with an application to cost-benefit analysis
… investigates whether a reconfiguration of maternity services, which collocates consultant- and midwifery-led care, reflects demand and value for money in Ireland. Qualitative and quantitative research is undertaken to investigate demand and an economic evaluation is performed to evaluate …
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Uniting maternity care with neonatal intensive care: Analysis advancing hospital experiences for families of newborns through design
… of infants admitted to neonatal intensive care were questioned with a mix-methods survey to discover what challenges they faced in order to amend the built environment to increase their satisfaction with their hospital and post-birth experience. Mothers showed less ability to interact with …
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Disclosure in maternity care contexts: the paradigm case of sexual orientation: the paradigm case of sexual orientation
… study of the concept of disclosure in maternity care contexts using the example of sexual orientation. There is a significant body of literature within psychology and sociology relating to the health and social purposes and consequences of disclosure. There is a further body of …
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Women's use of complementary and alternative medicine products and services during pregnancy : insights for safe, informed maternity care
… selected from the Australian national Medicare database to investigate multiple factors affecting health and wellbeing of women over a 20-year period. This research project analyses data from a sub-study survey administered in 2010. Participants in the sub-study were identified based upon …
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‘娩’ 与 ‘通’: Migrant Ethnic Chinese Mothers’ Intercultural Communication Experiences with Their Maternity-Care and Health Providers in New Zealand
… of in China. At the same time, New Zealand maternity-care and health providers find communicating with Chinese mothers a challenge as their knowledge of childbirth, culture, and communication is different to that of Chinese mothers. In examining the contested discourses of maternity care in …
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A mixed-method exploration of the level of respect provided to women during childbirth at healthcare facilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… by women during childbirth in Saudi healthcare settings. In the first qualitative phase, an overarching theme pertaining to women’s secure autonomy emerged. The Mother On Respect index (MORi) was culturally adapted, translated into Arabic and tested for validity and reliability in the KSA, …
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Exploring the journey to maternal death: gender and human rights perspectives on the major causes of maternal mortality in the Western Cape province, South Africa
… mortality, which result from delay in seeking maternity care and failure to attend maternity care during pregnancy. A gender approach was used to identify and analyse inequalities that arise from belonging to one sex or from unequal power relations between sexes and how these impact on women …
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Qualitative study exploring Maternity Ward Attendants’ perceptions of occupational (work related) stress and the coping methods they adopted within maternity care settings (hospital) in Nigeria
… Labour Organisation 2001). Staff within maternity settings have been identified as being at risk of suffering from stress, resulting in adverse health outcomes (Evenden and Sharpe, 2002). However, MWAs’ perceptions of stress have not been captured and are not reflected in the literature. …
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Development of Woman-Centred Midwife-led Model of Care through Participatory Methods for the Uasin Gishu County Hospital, Kenya
Background: The concept woman-centred care is gaining currency in maternity care and is increasingly being used to guide provision of quality care. The midwifery philosophy supports woman-centred care and is associated with positive pregnancy and birth outcomes. Development of a woman-centred …
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The experiences of autistic adults accessing healthcare services
… barriers to accessing appropriate mental health care. Empirical research and recent professional guidelines emphasise the importance of modifying standard mental health interventions to best meet the needs of autistic adults. Aim: This systematic review explored mental health professionals’ …
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"There’s a problem with BMI”: An exploration of midwives’ perspectives on the provision of maternity care to women with an increased BMI during pregnancy and childbirth in NZ
… 95% of women2 choose a midwife as their Lead Maternity Carer (LMC) (Ministry of Health [MOH], 2020) yet research exploring midwives’ perspectives on the provision care to women with increased Body Mass Index (BMI) is limited. The aim for this thesis was to explore ‘the perspectives of midwives …
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An ethnographic exploration of womens midwives and obstetricians beliefs about maternal movement during labour
… to identify how cultural differences influence maternity care and knowledge acquisition about movement in labour.A Focused Ethnographic (FE) approach was used. FE is a research method employed to investigate cultural dimensions of specific aspects of contemporary society, an approach different …
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Does culture influence the birth experiences of first-generation Nigerian women in London?
… (FGNW) living in London. FGNW’s folk (emic) care practices were compared with midwifery (etic) perspectives to gauge the interplay with maternity care competency and congruency in meeting their needs. The objective was to highlight factors within emic and etic care that may influence birth …
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