Hi all
This is a very important thread. I too, would be very interested in the questionnaire you used Chris. My PhD focused on preparedness for parenting twins, but I was unable to identify an appropriate validated tool (despite looking/exploring international options) and ended up using depression as a surrogate marker (which was not ideal).
Deborah, your work is interesting and indeed I also found a very strong theme in my PhD work linking expectation and experience, particularly in those with infertility/assisted conception pregnancy and adverse outcome.
Looking forward to meeting you all at the ICM in Glasgow
Best Wishes
Debbie
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive
>health research. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Deborah Davis
>Sent: 08 April 2008 01:54
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>Subject: Re: FW: maternal confidence
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>Hi Chris and thanks for that. I would love to have a look at
>the questionnaire you used cheers Deb
>
>Deborah Davis
>Principal Lecturer
>School of Midwifery
>Otago Polytechnic
>Private Bag 1910
>Dunedin
>New Zealand
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>ph: (03) 477 3014
>fax: (03) 474 8486
>>>> Chris McCourt <[log in to unmask]> 04/04/08 12:29 AM >>>
>Dear all
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>please see threads below for previous discussions and sorry
>they are a bit hard to read.
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>In response to Deborah - we did a study looking at women's
>responses to caseload midwifery care in the late 1990s. The
>survey included questions about women's worry levels, their
>feelings of preparedness for labour and for parenthood, their
>expectations and experiences of control and their confidence
>about labour and coping with the new baby.
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>We didn't have a validated scale but we did use a number of
>items from Jo Green's Great Expectations study, and these
>questions have been used in a number of maternity surveys, so
>there is a good basis for adopting some of them. If you are
>interested in seeing the details of the questionnaire, please
>let me know.
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>Key findings of the study were published in
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>Page L, Beake S, McCourt C. Clinical outcomes of caseload
>midwifery. BJM Nov 2001 but this is mainly clinical findings
>and gives only a few key items on women's responses that were
>analysed inferentially.
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>Chris
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>From: ICM network of research advisors on behalf of Luyben Ans
>Sent: Thu 03-Apr-08 10:42 AM
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>Cc:
>Subject: AW: maternal confidence
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>Dear `Deborah, dear all,
>
>I am a bit surprised that this wonderful discussion goes only
>through the RAN, whereas the Midwifery Research List would be
>better, as all can benefit from it.
>
>(Maternal) Confidence, with its properties and consequences,
>is one of the main categories of the model of womens'
>development during becoming a mother as well as a subject for
>routine antenatal care (but not only
>antenatal) that I found cross-nationally in three European
>countries (PhD). Self- confidence (Rubin/ Mercer) is only part
>of that . It is quite a complex issue, but according to my
>study,it is all related to the match between women's
>expectations and experiences- and therefore a very important
>indicator for women's postnatal "status" (more than well-being).
>As Soo says, it is related to anxieties and fear etc. (see
>Melender- fears contrasting security- i personally like
>confidence better than
>security- but this is a cross- national issue).
>Preliminary results are published in Luyben/ Fleming:
>Midwifery September 2005, which will also appear in the next
>midwifery book of Sara Wickham. Of course, explanations of how
>it all works is more
>difficult- if you'd like to discuss more in detail- please
>contact me off-line.
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>Best wishes, Ans
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>Ans Luyben
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>Von: ICM network of research advisors im Auftrag von Rainhild Schäfers
>Gesendet: Do 03.04.2008 11:03
>An: [log in to unmask]
>Betreff: Re: maternal confidence
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>Dear Soo Downe, would you be so kind and let me know it too
>what you decide to go with,and why? I am very interested in
>evaluating the influence of antenatal care on health promotion
>and disease prevention and how it could be measured.
>Thanks a lot.
>Rainhild SchäfersRainhild Schäfers Hägerstr. 77 48161 Münster
>Tel 02533-1510 email: [log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 3 Apr
>2008 09:11:22
>+0100> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: maternal confidence> To:
>[log in to unmask]> > Deb, we
>are currently planning a RCT based on an antenatal
>intervention> that we theorise will impact on anxiety, fear,
>and pain in labour, and> which therefore will impact on use of
>epidural analgesia and consequent> intrapartum interventions,
>and thereforeon longer term post
>natal>
>wellbeing and parenting capacity. We are still finaliswill be
>using, but we will certainly pay attention to Banduras work>
>(though it has been criticised, of course). We aim to finalise our
>tools> in the next week or so, so Ill let you know what we decide to go
>with,> and why.> > All the best> > Soo> > Professor Soo Downe>
>Director> Midwifery Studies Research Unit> University of
>Central Lancashire> Preston PR1 2HE> Lancashire> England> >
>+44 (0) 1772 893815> > > tel:
>01772 893815> > >>> Deborah Davis <[log in to unmask]>
>04/03/08 8:12 am >>>> thank you for your reply. The PhD is
>complete and I am now
>thinking> about potential future projects. So there are no details at
>this> stage,> I am just exploring possibilities.> cheers> Deb>
>> Deborah
>Davis> Principal Lecturer> School of Midwifery> Otago Polytechnic>
>Private Bag 1910> Dunedin> New Zealand> > ph: (03) 477 3014> fax: (03)
>474 8486> >>> "Manju Chhugani" <[log in to unmask]>
>04/03/08 7:31 PM >>>> Dear Deborah Davis> I am happy to note
>that you are touching this important aspect.> Midwifery> care
>based model can be helpful and we can assess the outcome in>
>intranatal> time and also we can do equivalence study. To
>suggest anything else I> need> to know the project in detail.
>I am a midwife in a teaching> institution> and> is a secretary
>of Society of Midwives, India, Delhi Chapter. We have> 2-3>
>midwifery run clinics in Delhi. We can take data from them for review.>
>Regards> Dr Manju Chhugani> > > On 4/3/08, Deborah Davis
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:> >> > Hi there list members, I
>have been thinking about some of the> findings> > from my phD
>study and in particular the work that midwives do> >
>antenatally to build women's confidence in their ability to
>birth> and> > parent. I am interested in exploring how this
>confidence could be> > measured, whether certain models of
>care have a greater impact on> > confidence and whether having
>greater confidence is related to an> > increased likelihood of
>normal birth. I have a few articles that> use> > the
>"childbirth self efficacy inventory" and wondered if anyone
>had> any> > experience with this tool or could suggest any
>others that might be> > useful.> >> >> > Jane Drummond & Debra
>Rickwood (1997) Childbirth confidence:> validating> > the
>childbirth> > self-efficacy inventory (CBSEI) in an Australian
>sample. Journal of> > Advanced Nursing, 1997, 26, 613-622> >>
>> Marlene Sinclair & Colm O'Boyle (1999) The Childbirth
>Self-Efficacy> > Inventory:> > a replication study. Journal of
>Advanced Nursing, 1999, 30(6),> 1416±1423> >> >> > thanks> >>
>> Deborah Davis> > Principal
>Lecturer> > School of Midwifery> > Otago Polytechnic> > Private Bag
>1910> > Dunedin> > New Zealand> >> > ph: (03) 477 3014> > fax: (03) 474
>8486> >
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