Positive childbirth experience: A qualitative study

Explaining the Childbirth Experience with the Support of a Doula in an Iranian Setting: A Qualitative Study

The meaning of a poor childbirth experience – A qualitative phenomenological study with women in Rwanda

OBJECTIVE Being pregnant and giving birth is a pivotal life event and one that a woman ordinarily remembers for most of her life. A negative childbirth experience can affect a woman's health well beyond the episode of the labour and birth itself. This study explored the meaning of a poor childbirth experience, as expressed by women who had given birth in Rwanda. METHODS In a cross-sectional h...

Learning experience through peer education: a qualitative study

Introduction: Peer education can be a useful approach in learning difficult and important courses such as physiology. Since students encounter new teacher roles and learning from classmates in this approach, they might go through new experiences which contribute to developing effective peer education. However, few studies have examined these experiences, especially in Iranian culture therefore ...

Participant experiences of mindfulness-based childbirth education: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND Childbirth is an important transitional life event, but one in which many women are dissatisfied stemming in part from a sense that labour is something that happens to them rather than with them. Promoting maternal satisfaction with childbirth means equipping women with communication and decision making skills that will enhance their ability to feel involved in their labour. Addition...

iranian kurdish women’s experiences of childbirth: a qualitative study

abstract background: the experience of labor and birth, referred to as childbirth, is complex, multidimensional, and subjective, relating to both the outcome and the process that is experienced by an individual woman. the aim of this study was to describe the experience of childbirth among kurdish women giving birth at besat hospital in sanandaj, iran. materials and methods: a qualitative study...