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Left powerless: A qualitative social media content analysis of the Dutch #breakthesilence campaign on negative and traumatic experiences of labour and birth (2020)
Journal Article
van der Pijl, M. S., Hollander, M. H., van der Linden, T., Verweij, R., Holten, L., Kingma, E., de Jonge, A., & Verhoeven, C. J. (2020). Left powerless: A qualitative social media content analysis of the Dutch #breakthesilence campaign on negative and traumatic experiences of labour and birth. PLoS ONE, 15(5), Article e0233114. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233114

Introduction Disrespect and abuse during labour and birth are increasingly reported all over the world. In 2016, a Dutch client organization initiated an online campaign, #genoeggezwegen (#breakthesilence) which encouraged women to share negative and... Read More about Left powerless: A qualitative social media content analysis of the Dutch #breakthesilence campaign on negative and traumatic experiences of labour and birth.

‘Socialised care futility’ in the care of older people in hospital who call out repetitively: an ethnographic study (2020)
Journal Article
Beaver, J., Goldberg, S. E., Edgley, A., & Harwood, R. (2020). ‘Socialised care futility’ in the care of older people in hospital who call out repetitively: an ethnographic study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 107, Article 103589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103589

Background

People living with dementia may call out repetitively, sometimes called disruptive vocalisation, or verbal agitation. In literature and policy, patients who call out repetitively are assumed to be expressing an unmet need, which should... Read More about ‘Socialised care futility’ in the care of older people in hospital who call out repetitively: an ethnographic study.

Regional variations in childbirth interventions and their correlations with adverse outcomes, birthplace and care provider: A nationwide explorative study (2020)
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Seijmonsbergen-Schermers, A. E., Zondag, D. C., Nieuwenhuijze, M., van den Akker, T., Verhoeven, C. J., Geerts, C. C., Schellevis, F. G., & de Jonge, A. (2020). Regional variations in childbirth interventions and their correlations with adverse outcomes, birthplace and care provider: A nationwide explorative study. PLoS ONE, 15(3), Article e0229488. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229488

Background: Variations in childbirth interventions may indicate inappropriate use. Most variation studies are limited by the lack of adjustments for maternal characteristics and do not investigate variations in adverse outcomes. This study aims to ex... Read More about Regional variations in childbirth interventions and their correlations with adverse outcomes, birthplace and care provider: A nationwide explorative study.

Factors influencing utilisation of ‘free-standing’ and ‘alongside’ midwifery units for low-risk births in England: a mixed-methods study (2020)
Journal Article
Walsh, D., Spiby, H., McCourt, C., Coleby, D., Grigg, C., Bishop, S., Scanlon, M., Culley, L., Wilkinson, J., Pacanowski, L., & Thornton, J. (2020). Factors influencing utilisation of ‘free-standing’ and ‘alongside’ midwifery units for low-risk births in England: a mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 8(12), 1-106. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr08120

STRAWB2 (Stress and Wellbeing After Childbirth): a randomised controlled trial of targeted self‐help materials to prevent post‐traumatic stress disorder following childbirth (2020)
Journal Article
Slade, P., West, H., Thomson, G., Lane, S., Spiby, H., Tudor Edwards, R., Charles, J., Garrett, C., Flanagan, B., Treadwell, M., Hayden, E., & Weeks, A. (2020). STRAWB2 (Stress and Wellbeing After Childbirth): a randomised controlled trial of targeted self‐help materials to prevent post‐traumatic stress disorder following childbirth. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 127(7), 886-896. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.16163

Objectives

To test whether providing psychological self‐help materials would significantly lower the incidence of post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at 6–12 weeks postnatally.

Design

Open‐label randomised controlled trial, with blinded ou... Read More about STRAWB2 (Stress and Wellbeing After Childbirth): a randomised controlled trial of targeted self‐help materials to prevent post‐traumatic stress disorder following childbirth.

Women's information needs, decision-making and experiences of membrane sweeping to promote spontaneous labour (2020)
Journal Article
Spiby, H., Roberts, J., Evans, K., Evans, C., Pallotti, P., & Eldridge, J. (2020). Women's information needs, decision-making and experiences of membrane sweeping to promote spontaneous labour. Midwifery, 83, Article 102626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2019.102626

© 2019 Objective: To explore and synthesise evidence of women's information needs, decision-making and experiences of membrane sweeping to promote spontaneous labour. Design: A systematic review following the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) meta-aggreg... Read More about Women's information needs, decision-making and experiences of membrane sweeping to promote spontaneous labour.

Childbirth on television: a scoping review and recommendations for further research (2019)
Journal Article
Roberts, J., & De Benedictis, S. (2019). Childbirth on television: a scoping review and recommendations for further research. Feminist Media Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1690025

Factual and reality television shows that depict childbirth are both commercially successful and controversial. Social debate focuses on the potential implications for women’s experiences of birth and their health. This scoping review critically anal... Read More about Childbirth on television: a scoping review and recommendations for further research.

Are midwives in the Netherlands satisfied with their jobs? A systematic examination of satisfaction levels among hospital and primary-care midwives in the Netherlands (2019)
Journal Article
Cronie, D., Perdok, H., Verhoeven, C., Jans, S., Hermus, M., de Vries, R., & Rijnders, M. (2019). Are midwives in the Netherlands satisfied with their jobs? A systematic examination of satisfaction levels among hospital and primary-care midwives in the Netherlands. BMC Health Services Research, 19(1), Article 832. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4454-x