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The International Day of the Midwife was established by the ICM in 1992 and is observed by more than 50 nations around the world. Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the ICM, and ICM (2023a)...
Beyond Bea (2023b) launched its new online training platform in 2023, which...
A descriptive, exploratory design was used, involving a retrospective chart review. Anonymous data on demographic information, obstetric history, prescribed medications, results of investigations and...
This article presents the process of survey development and the two pre-testing methods that preceded a conventional pilot: cognitive interviews and a discussion group. Cognitive interviews are...
This study used a descriptive, retrospective design to review comprehensive register data for low-risk pregnancies between 2010 and 2015. Ethical approval and permission to use data from the register...
The electronic databases CINAHL, Maternity and Infant Care, EMBASE and PubMed were systematically searched using key words and terms, which included: midwife, midwives, woman, women,...
The focus of this review was the evaluation of articles describing the use of simulation in midwifery education. A search was carried out using the online database PUBMED for articles published...
One glaring issue that is not discussed is the removal of tuition fees for undergraduate midwifery programmes. The government restored funding for healthcare programmes in the form of a maintenance...
This week, I attended the British Journal of Midwifery's annual conference, which was held in person for the first time since I became editor of the journal. It was an educational and interesting day,...
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Action on Pre-eclampsia is willing to collaborate with any credible researchers in relevant areas. Recent efforts include defining the most important topics requiring research by The James Lind...
This mixed-methods online survey collected both quantitative and qualitative data simultaneously. These data were analysed separately and synthesised to develop the findings (Creswell and Creswell,...
Table 1 presents the sociodemographic, pregnancy- and birth-related characteristics of the participants. The mean age was 29.67 years (standard deviation: 5.21 years). More than half of the...
The study used a descriptive integrated cross-sectional method for data collection. All data were obtained from medical records at the Merah Putih Government Hospital in Indonesia, a referral hospital...
This literature review focused on qualitative research, to gather insight from rich data about women's experiences (Aveyard, 2019). Initial searches were undertaken in April 2022 in CINAHL Plus,...
George Mora (1965) described modern psychiatry starting at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. This coincided with the publication of Pinel's (1806) ‘treatise on mental...
The prevalence of mental health problems has been increasing in the UK. Evidence from population-wide surveys indicates that the rate of severe symptoms of common mental disorders increased from 6.9%...
The term episiotomy describes a surgical incision made in the vaginal wall and perineum, which is performed during the second stage of labour. It was first coined in 1742 by the Irish doctor and...
By adopting a critical feminist stance, this study aimed to illuminate women’s voices in what is described as a predominantly male-orientated NHS organisational culture (Davies, 2003). Despite...
Young (1984) describes a pregnant woman experiencing birth as a dialectic state, a fluid and changing relationality as the woman–placenta–fetus becomes mother–baby. The woman neither controls the...
This qualitative study was conducted in the Sumenep district on Madura Island in Indonesia, between January 2017 and March 2018. Three sub-districts were selected as study sites representing coastal...
This nationwide mixed-methods study used a sequential quantitative-qualitative design. The quantitative elements were the main focus, complemented by a qualitative component. A survey tool was...
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Bangor University has a longstanding history of working with HEIW in the delivery of its midwifery programme. In 2021, Bangor successfully bid to tender new contracts with HEIW to deliver midwifery...
A couple’s experience of pregnancy loss, how they cope and their role in supporting and caring for each other during the loss may be complex and difficult to understand. Childbirth generally, whether...
A scoping review method was used to review the literature. This method is recommended when the topic has not yet been broadly reviewed or is of a complex nature (Mays et al, 2001). The methodological...
Medicine has been slow to establish involvement of experts by experience, but has shown that all curricula lack theoretically informed perspectives (Regan de Bere and Nunn, 2016; Spencer, 2016), while...
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