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How Do Pregnant Women Perceive The Role Of The Midwife In Thailand? A Descriptive Study, Sudjit Liblub, Lyn Gum, Maryam Bazargan
How Do Pregnant Women Perceive The Role Of The Midwife In Thailand? A Descriptive Study, Sudjit Liblub, Lyn Gum, Maryam Bazargan
Journal of Asian Midwives (JAM)
Background: Midwives are globally recognised as health professionals who specialise in caring for childbearing women with a vital role in maternal and neonatal health care. Despite the midwifery profession being an autonomous profession, there are many struggles to attain recognition within its formal scope of practice in some countries.
Objective: This study was undertaken to explore the views of pregnant women in Thailand regarding the role of midwifes and their selection of intrapartum care providers in order to understand their perceptions about giving birth with a midwife for normal pregnancies.
Design and setting: An online descriptive survey collected the views …
The Lived Experience Of Pregnancy As A Black Woman In America: A Descriptive Phenomenological Case Study, Jodie C. Gary, Sharon L. Dormire, Jamil Norman, Idethia S. Harvey Drph
The Lived Experience Of Pregnancy As A Black Woman In America: A Descriptive Phenomenological Case Study, Jodie C. Gary, Sharon L. Dormire, Jamil Norman, Idethia S. Harvey Drph
Journal of Interprofessional Practice and Collaboration
PURPOSE: Health disparities in childbearing black women in the United States have continued through multiple decades despite overall improvements in pregnancy-related outcomes for other ethnicities. Pregnancy outcomes for black women include greater risks of maternal mortality, severe morbidity, as well as preterm and low birthweight infants. From a person-centered perspective, the description of the lived experiences of adversity for pregnant black women is missing from the literature. This omission is believed to attribute to the continued health disparities in this population.
METHODS: While the study was originally designed using focus group methodology for data collection for a larger number of …