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Childbirth

The effect of supportive intrapartum care during birth in Jordan: a quasi-experimental study

A quasi-experimental study was conducted, using a pre-, post-test design with a control group. This design was chosen to manage a range of feasibility issues; for example, group assignment was...

Factors predicting self-efficacy during birth in Chinese women: a cross-sectional study

A predictive correlational design was used. The study was conducted in a tertiary teaching hospital in China from August to September 2021. The hospital provides comprehensive obstetric care for women...

Risk factors and clinical manifestations of COVID-19 in pregnant women in Indonesia

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...

How does social media influence expectations, decision making and experiences of childbirth?

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,...

Sustainability of Entonox in obstetrics: a qualitative study

This service evaluation of Entonox use in a Scottish hospital's labour ward used semi-structured interviews with midwives and an environmental sustainability manager. Participants were recruited via...

Investigating antenatal pelvic floor training using a vaginal balloon device in Czech women

A total of 200 nulliparous women were considered for this prospective cohort intervention study between March 2017 and May 2019, and the data from 123 women were used in the final analysis. The total...

First-time fathers' experiences attending labour and birth: a descriptive cross-sectional study

This was a descriptive cross-sectional study of 200 first-time fathers visiting midwifery counseling centers in Tehran, Iran. With an alpha of 0.05, z of 1.96, sigma of 7 and d of 1, the sample size...

Lived experiences of women with memories of childbirth

The experiences of childbirth memories were narrated against the background of women attempting to live their lives in the present while coping with changes in their lives that accompanied the birth...

COVID-19 and clinical outcomes of pregnancy: a comparative study

A before and during comparative study of maternal pregnancy, labour and birth, and postpartum clinical outcomes was conducted at an urban-based tertiary maternity hospital in Ireland with an annual...

The marginalisation of midwifery in medicalised pregnancy and childbirth: a qualitative study

In many places across the globe, midwives are the first caregivers of pregnant women and parturient (Sandall et al, 2016) Nonetheless, significant differences exist in the organisation of midwifery...

Measuring women's experiences of childbirth using the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R)

The 10-item Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) is a multi-factorial psychometrically robust tool developed for the purpose of measuring women's experiences of labour and childbirth (Hollins...

Childbirth satisfaction and perceptions of control: postnatal psychological implications

The safe delivery of a healthy baby is a critical priority in perinatal care However, maternal satisfaction also remains an important outcome, as it has the potential to influence psychological...

The impact of birth-related injury and pain on breastfeeding outcomes

Human milk is acknowledged to be the optimum source of nutrition for infants, while also being beneficial to maternal health (Victora et al, 2016) As such, the World Health Organization ([WHO], 2019)...

‘We are just obsessed with risk’: healthcare providers' views on choice of place of birth for women

It is a woman's right to make an informed choice regarding where she wishes to give birth (Birthrights, 2013) Globally, it is recommended that women's individual health needs should be taken into...

Maternal and paternal expectations of antenatal education across the transition to parenthood

Supporting parents-to-be through antenatal education classes has been recognised as an important prevention and intervention strategy (Department of Health, 2011)

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