OBJECTIVE To assess whether a 2 days training with experts teaching on diagnosis and repair of perineal injuries among Palestinian midwives and physicians could change their level of knowledge towards the correct diagnosis and treatment. STUDY DESIGN Multicentre observational study. SETTING Obstetric departments in 6 government Palestinian hospitals. PARTICIPANTS All physicians and midwiv...

BACKGROUND Established in 1999, the Swedish Maternal Health Care Register (MHCR) collects data on pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period for most pregnant women in Sweden. Antenatal care (ANC) midwives manually enter data into the Web-application that is designed for MHCR. The aim of this study was to investigate midwives' experiences, opinions and use of the MHCR. METHOD A national, cro...

BACKGROUND health professionals in Belgium are confronted with female genital mutilation (FGM). To date, no survey to assess knowledge, attitudes and practices on FGM was conducted among midwives in the Northern region of Belgium. OBJECTIVE the objective of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of Flemish midwives regarding female genital mutilation (FGM). DESIGN we...

BACKGROUND While there exists an extensive amount of research regarding the medical aspects of abortion, there is a great lack of studies investigating staff's views and experiences of working in abortion services. AIMS To elucidate gynaecologists' and midwives'/nurses' experiences, perceptions and interactions working in abortion services, their experiences of medical abortions and abortions...

BACKGROUND clinical reasoning was once thought to be the exclusive domain of medicine - setting it apart from 'non-scientific' occupations like midwifery. Poor assessment, clinical reasoning and decision-making skills are well known contributors to adverse outcomes in maternity care. Midwifery decision-making models share a common deficit: they are insufficiently detailed to guide reasoning pro...

objective: despite the benefits of mother-newborn skin-to-skin contact (ssc) immediately after birth, the process has not been universally implemented as routine care for healthy term neonates. the purpose of this study was to determine opinions of the midwives about enabling factors of ssc immediately after birth in tehran hospitals in 2012- 2013. materials and methods: this study has been con...

While a considerable amount of research is done in the field of moral psychology, to our best knowledge, no systematic study of moral judgments made by professional groups who make moral decisions as part of their occupational duties exists (e.g. firefighters, medical doctors, midwives, police officers). By their training and practice, such professionals are expected to exhibit differences in m...

BACKGROUND There are two approaches to care during the third stage of labour: Active management includes three components: administration of a prophylactic uterotonic drug, cord clamping and controlled cord traction. For physiological care, intervention occurs only if there is clinical need. Evidence to guide care during the third stage is limited and there is variation in recommendations which...

BACKGROUND In labour market policy and planning, it is important to understand the motivations of people to continue in their current job or to seek other employment. Over the last decade, besides the increasingly medical approach to pregnancy and childbirth and decreasing home births, there were additional dramatic changes and pressures on primary care midwives and midwifery care. Therefore, i...

BACKGROUND Midwives have a potential role in promoting the oral health of pregnant women although they have little formal training in this area. The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives of midwives in Victoria towards incorporating oral health promotion into their antenatal practice after undergoing training through the Midwifery Initiated Oral Health (MIOH) online education progra...