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The latest report from Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (2022) has been released, giving a striking insight into midwifery and maternity care...
Since 1960, the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS)...
A total of 10 peer supporters were trained, with nine women completing the evaluation form. This immediate feedback showed that the training was generally well received. The majority of participants...
A total of 126 women were included in the study. The majority were 20—35 years old (90.4%) and the mean age was 27.17 ± 5.71 years. Most women were housewives (96.0%), had primary education (52.6%)...
When reflecting on the factors affecting the decision-making process, it is useful to consider decision-making theory. The dual processing theory suggests that thought process can be distinguished as...
Midwives often make clinical decisions with missing or ambiguous information, requiring skill and a degree of managed risk consideration (NHS, 2022) or trade off, as per Sherif et al's (1965) degrees...
Current global migratory movements are creating multicultural societies that demand culturally sensitive health professionals to care for women and families (Belintxon and López-Dicastillo, 2014). As...
In a study of over 250 women (both pregnant and non-pregnant) based in Ireland, De Benedictus et al (2022) evaluated dietary intake and the bioavailability of zinc, finding that ‘58.14% of women and...
The title is explicitly clear and by the end of the book you will know about postnatal post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from a variety of angles
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‘I cried a lot…It wasn't what I had planned for my life obviously, and COVID-19 had been exciting enough up until that point! Now I had cancer to deal with at the age of 43 [years].’ .
It is hard to imagine how devastating it must be to lose a child. It must be especially difficult to learn that a baby's death could have been prevented. However, according to the findings of the...
The pre-intervention group (no routine weighing) included all women who attended the advanced midwife practitioner service for all antenatal care and gave birth in a particular maternity unit in...
All stages of this study were carried out by the author as part of a PhD study. To address the research aim of the study, to explore midwifery decision-making during normal labour and birth, an...
The participants' demographic data are shown in Table 1. Most participants chose to continue with their pregnancy (81.2%). The greatest proportion of respondents was from Java (33.4%). The majority...
The concept of safety netting is particularly relevant in midwifery given the fundamental nature of midwifery care, which depends on working in partnership with women to recognise and support normal...
All at the British Journal of Midwifery (BJM) were saddened to hear of the passing of our wonderful former consultant editor, Corina Casey-Hardman, on 10 August 2022.
A qualitative approach was taken, using demographics and open-ended qualitative questions to collect data. The use of qualitative data enhanced the description and understanding of nursing and...
Assessment is an integral component of teaching and learning with diverse functions and purposes. Its purposes can be distinguished as the ‘assessment of learning’ and ‘assessment for learning’....
The project used a mixed-methods design (Hanson et al, 2005) to make use of the advantages of both qualitative and quantitative approaches and ameliorate any potential disadvantages (Johnson et al,...
The perceived insufficient milk questionnaire was designed to measure mothers' perception of breastmilk adequacy in terms of quality and quantity to satisfy their infants. The present study aimed to...
Both the UK and Brazil have sizeable populations that mean there is high demand for antenatal and maternal care. A comparison of maternal demographic data from Brazil and the UK is shown in Table 1..
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Migration can be influenced by political, demographic, socioeconomic and environmental factors that can result in physical and psychological stressors. This can increase migrant women's susceptibility...
Learning through simulation is a widely used and effective pedagogy for clinical skills, encouraging students to think flexibly and develop competence, safe practice and understanding, closing the gap...
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