This study explored the Australian midwives' role in the provision of nutrition advice. Little is known about their perceptions of this role, the influence of the model of care, and the barriers and facilitators that may influence them providing quality nutrition advice to pregnant women. Semistructured telephone interviews were undertaken with a subsample (n = 16) of the members of the Austral...

BACKGROUND Pregnant women in England are now offered seasonal influenza vaccine. Midwives could be influential in promoting this, but specific information on their views on the policy and their role in its implementation is lacking. METHODS London midwives were surveyed for their views on the new policy and their own vaccine uptake, using an anonymously self-completed semi-structured online s...

abstract: background and objectives :  professional ethics is part of midwifery skills that cannot be separated from it .midwives must get acquainted with this skill and ethical laws, avoiding at the same time unethical manners. materials and methods : this study was cross-sectional survey which examined knowledge and attitude of 101 midwives that had been selected by convenient sampling proced...

BACKGROUND National sexual health frameworks in the UK advise that women in maternity units who are at risk of unintended pregnancy should receive contraceptive advice and supplies of the most effective long-acting reversible methods of contraception (LARC). In the UK, midwives currently deliver contraceptive advice to women following childbirth. There is a lack of information on how midwives c...

BACKGROUND Regular weighing in pregnant women is not currently recommended in many countries but has been suggested to prevent excessive gestational weight gain. This study aimed to establish the feasibility and acceptability of incorporating regular weighing, setting maximum weight gain targets and feedback by community midwives. METHODS Low risk pregnant women cared for by eight community m...

BACKGROUND In the Netherlands, midwives are autonomous medical practitioners and 78% of pregnant women start their maternity care with a primary care midwife. Scientific research to support evidence-based practice in primary care midwifery in the Netherlands has been sparse. This paper describes the research design and methodology of the multicenter multidisciplinary prospective DELIVER study w...

OBJECTIVE to assess the knowledge of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection among Dutch primary care midwives, and clinical approaches to informing women about CMV. DESIGN cross-sectional study, using self-administered questionnaires. PARTICIPANTS 330 Dutch primary care midwives. SETTING primary midwifery care practices across the Netherlands. MAIN OUTCOME Midwives' knowledge of CMV transmissi...

Objective: to explore barriers to the involvement of community midwives in identifying women in early pregnancy as potential participants in the XX, a randomised controlled trial of a new intervention to provide health and parenting support to potentially vulnerable women. Design: descriptive qualitative investigation using semi-structured audio-recoded interviews. Setting: community midwifery ...

for social rather than medical reasons—i.e., in terms of their age, education, ethnicity, marital status, inner-city and rural residence and ability to pay for services.3 This patient profile suggests that midwives are primarily being used to fill health care gaps among the economically disadvantaged. New Medicaid reimbursement regulations could be partially responsible for this relationship,4 ...