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| Title |
Support provided by midwives to women during labour in a public hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa: a participant observation study
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| Published in |
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12884-018-1860-8 |
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| Authors |
Maria S. Maputle |
| Abstract |
Physical presence during labour offer women opportunity of having positive childbirth experiences as well as childbirth outcomes. The study aimed to determine what support provided by midwives during intrapartum care at a public hospital in Limpopo Province. The study was conducted at a tertiary hospital in Limpopo Province. A participant observation approach was used to achieve the objectives of the study. The population comprised of all women who were admitted with labour and for delivery and midwives who were providing midwifery care in the obstetric unit of a tertiary public hospital in Limpopo Province. Non-probability, purposive and convenience sampling were used to sample 24 women and 12 midwives. Data were collected through participant observations which included unstructured conversations with the use of observational guide, field notes of all events and conversations that occurred when women interact with midwives were recorded verbatim and a Visual Analog Scale to complement the observations. Data were analysed qualitatively but were presented in the tables and bar graphs. Five themes emerged as support provided by midwives during labour, namely; communication between women and midwives, informational support, emotional support activities, interpretation of the experienced labour pain and supportive care activities during labour. The communication between woman and midwife was occurring as part of midwifery care and very limited for empowering. The information sharing focused on the assistive actions rather than on the activities that would promote mothers' participation. The emotional support activities indicated lack of respect and disregard cultural preferences and this contributed to inability to exercise choices in decision-making. The study recommended the implementation of Batho Pele principles in order to provide woman-centred care during labour. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 189 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 189 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 30 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 8 | 4% |
| Lecturer | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 28 | 15% |
| Unknown | 85 | 45% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 48 | 25% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 2% |
| Psychology | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 17 | 9% |
| Unknown | 90 | 48% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 June 2018.
All research outputs
#5,828,208
of 23,088,369 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#1,512
of 4,250 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#100,893
of 329,782 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#60
of 153 outputs
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