Midwifery Research - Science topic

In nursing and midwifery research we often do survey studies. How can we justify that our nursing and midwifery research proposals are really research and not a quality improvement project?

The definition of obstetric violence is “…the appropriation of the body and reproductive processes of women by health personnel, which is expressed as dehumanized treatment, an abuse of medication, and to convert the natural processes into pathological ones, bringing with it loss of autonomy and the ability to decide freely about their bodies and sexuality, negatively impacting the quality of life of women.” <br />

I'm working on obstetric violence. Does anyone know of any studies about this topic?

midwifery research

I am currently undertaking my Public Health Masters and new to primary research.

Initially i wanted to do qualitative interviews to explore the barriers and enablers for midwiwives councelling and administering contraception within maternity services however i am unable to do interviews as they are people i work which would cause ethical and validity issues with my data.

I am able to use a gatekeeper at my work to enable anonomidity so am interesed in qualitative questionaires completed by the midwives but i am struggling to find my infomration about how to do this in books i have read.

Is it best to change my approach to quanitative and use yes/no or scales? I am just worries about my sample size as i only have about 30 staff members who i can ask as they are the only ones doing this job role that i want to explore.

I found only two researches yet from India and Nepal. Are there other researches from Srilanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan?

1) David, K. V., Pricilla, R. A., Venkatesan, S., Rahman, S. P., Sy, G., & Vijayaselvi, R. (2012). Outcomes of deliveries in a midwife-run labour room located at an urban health centre: results of a 5-year retrospective study. The National Medical Journal of India, 25, 323-326.

2) Rana, T. G., Rajopadhyaya, R., Bajracharya, B., Karmacharya, M., & Osrin, D. (2003). Comparison of midwifery-led and consultant-led maternity care for low risk deliveries in Nepal. Health Policy and Planning, 18(3), 330-337.

Midwifery self-administered attitude scale. 

To be administer in low income countries.

Not specific to homebirth or breastfeeding for example.

This scale is used to describe the extent to which women feel in control during childbirth.

I am seeking a validated tool which can be applied to the Caribbean.

I'm writing my thesis about the biological mother in the adoption triad, and it is very difficult to find anything about this population.

Having attended to 5 women with intrauterine fetal demise, 4 of them reported having had diarrhea either a day or two prior to the diagnosis that their expected baby had passed on. I would also like to know if there is anyone else who has had this observation or if there is any literature on this.

I research the history of midwifery and childbirth and how this subject is presented in science museums or medical museums. I have found no exhibitions about this specific theme yet. Any ideas are welcome.

As the UK population diversifies so are the foods that are available in supermarkets such as okra (ladies fingers), yams and plantain. Pregnant women are bombarded with advice from healthcare professionals including midwives, GPs, from the media, magazines on what is best. Quite often, the nutritional values of the less usual foods are not readily available at which point, advice from a family elder can be sought. This question is one that caused me some concern when I worked as a midwife many years ago in the West Midlands and London where I was privileged to care for women from many different countries with rich cultures and array of foods. Now as a lecturer, I teach cultural issues in midwifery and feel that this session would be incomplete without some discussions about foods and its nutritional values to pregnant women and their babies.