Forthcoming Special Issues –Midwifery

Early Labour

 

Guest Editors: Helen Spiby and Helen Cheyne

 

Early labour is a major challenge for providers of maternity care and for women and their families.  Early Labour has been chosen as the focus of a new initiative by the journal in its aim of facilitating discussion of contemporary topics of international relevance to midwives and other providers of maternity care. Throughout 2012 and 2013 Midwifery will be commissioning a series of papers on Early Labour to appear in print and which will be published simultaneously online concluding as a collection of papers in a Virtual Issue of the journal.

 

Papers* in the following areas (but not limited to) will be considered by the editorial team:

• Primary/secondary research related to any aspect of early labour/care during early labour

• Cross-cultural perspectives on early labour

• Educational issues including

• preparing midwives and others to provide care and support for women in early labour

• preparing women and their companions for early labour

• Knowledge transfer

 

In addition to childbearing women, their families and midwives, there are many groups for whom early labour is of interest; these include obstetricians, psychologists, policy-makers, public health specialists, doulas, childbirth educators and family physicians and we welcome scholarly contributions that have used either or both quantitative or qualitative approaches or papers that report education or knowledge transfer initiatives that offer learning beyond individual setting.

Text Box: If you have your research or review ready, or are currently undertaking a study/an initiative that will be completed in the next 12 months, send an abstract of 500 words detailing the proposed paper (with 3-6 references) to the Editorial Office at <a href=[log in to unmask] A brief timeline of the research/initiative should also be submitted along the anticipated date of submission of the paper to assist us in planning the series." src="cid:image002.png@01CC1ABC.B1693E20" width="1209" height="81">
 

 

 

 

 

 


www.midwiferyjournal.com                 *For all submissions, the journal’s usual peer review processes and standards will apply.

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