Hi Louise,
You´ve chosen a real important topic - I´ll look forward to take part of your results!
I´m a midwife working in a labourward in southern Sweden, doing my doctoral thesis on birth seat birth and upright positions. I´m going to explore midwives attitudes to birth position in particular second stage birth positions. I´ve planned to do focus groups interviews which I believe and hope can reveal their attitudes!
Li Thies-Lagergren RM, Mmid
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Skickat: den 8 januari 2011 15:40
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Ämne: Attitudes of midwives regarding interventions
Dear midwives, researcher in midwifery and students,
for the start of the new year 2011 I like to wish you all the best.
Since 2000 I'm a practising midwife and I worked in different hospitals in Germany and Switzerland.
After my BSc (hons) study at the Glasgow Caledonian University I started with
The European Master in Midwifery program in 2009.
My interest and focus in midwifery research is on practising midwives in hospitals, because in the moment over 97% of births take place in hospital setting in Germany. I learned a lot from my independent midwives colleagues in out-of hospital settings and I realized the huge gab between the birth situations there and in hospital.
The midwives know a lot about normal birth, but they are not able to protect it in the actual hospital situation. Many aspects stop them to give a higher normal birth rate a future in Germany, in Europe and in the whole world.
I like to explore this aspects and why midwives are not able to change this situation.
In the moment I’m looking around in the field of interventions during labour. There I like to explore the attitudes of midwives regarding some interventions.
My question is how can I explore attitudes of midwives? Is a valid tool or questionnaire available to explore for example attitudes of midwives regarding Misoprostol and Oxytocin augmentation, amniotomy or routine Oxytocin application in the third stage of labour?
Hope to find an answer.
Looking forward to exchange on this platform.
Luise Lengler
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