Outputs (21)

“Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework (2023)
Journal Article
Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Callard, F., Pollock, K., Slade, M., & Edgley, A. (2023). “Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework. SSM - Mental Health, 3, Article 100221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100221

The dominant narrative in mental health policy and practice has shifted in the 21st century from one of chronic ill health to a ‘recovery’ orientation. Knowledge of recovery is based on narratives of people with lived experience of mental distress. H... Read More about “Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework.

Consent and refusal of procedures during labour and birth: a survey among 11 418 women in the Netherlands (2023)
Journal Article
Van Der Pijl, M. S. G., Klein Essink, M., Van Der Linden, T., Verweij, R., Kingma, E., Hollander, M. H., De Jonge, A., & Verhoeven, C. J. (2024). Consent and refusal of procedures during labour and birth: a survey among 11 418 women in the Netherlands. BMJ Quality and Safety, 33(8), 511-522. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2022-015538

Background: Informed consent for medical interventions is ethically and legally required; an important aspect of quality and safety in healthcare; and essential to person-centred care. During labour and birth, respecting consent requirements, includi... Read More about Consent and refusal of procedures during labour and birth: a survey among 11 418 women in the Netherlands.

Predictive value of fetal growth trajectory from 20 weeks of gestation onwards for severe adverse perinatal outcomes in low‐risk population: secondary analysis of IRIS study (2023)
Journal Article
Kamphof, H. D., van Roekel, M., Henrichs, J., de Vreede, H., Verhoeven, C. J., Franx, A., de Jonge, A., Ganzevoort, W., & Gordijn, S. J. (2023). Predictive value of fetal growth trajectory from 20 weeks of gestation onwards for severe adverse perinatal outcomes in low‐risk population: secondary analysis of IRIS study. Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 62(6), 796-804. https://doi.org/10.1002/uog.26250

Objectives
Fetal growth restriction (FGR) remains a challenging condition in diagnosis and monitoring-management strategies. The underlying placental dysfunction may result in severe adverse perinatal outcomes (SAPO) related to fetal hypoxia. The tr... Read More about Predictive value of fetal growth trajectory from 20 weeks of gestation onwards for severe adverse perinatal outcomes in low‐risk population: secondary analysis of IRIS study.

Pain intensity, coping and maternal satisfaction in low-risk labouring women: a prospective descriptive correlational study (2023)
Journal Article
Borrelli, S., Lecis, A., Antolini, L., Miglietta, M., Zanini, A., Nespoli, A., & Fumagalli, S. (2023). Pain intensity, coping and maternal satisfaction in low-risk labouring women: a prospective descriptive correlational study. Sexual and Reproductive HealthCare, 36, Article 100848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2023.100848

Objectives
The primary aim of the study was to explore pain intensity (PI) and pain coping (PC) scores and the relationship between them. The secondary aim was to explore the correlation between PI and PC scores with labour progress, parity, labour... Read More about Pain intensity, coping and maternal satisfaction in low-risk labouring women: a prospective descriptive correlational study.

Understanding antenatal care use in pastoralist communities: a focused ethnographic study in Kenya (2023)
Journal Article
Barako, T. D., Spiby, H., Evans, C., & Konstantinidis, S. (2023). Understanding antenatal care use in pastoralist communities: a focused ethnographic study in Kenya. African Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, 17(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.12968/ajmw.2022.0021

Background/Aims
The provision of high-quality antenatal care improves maternal and child health outcomes. Pastoralist communities face unique challenges in accessing healthcare associated with a nomadic, marginalised lifestyle, and have high rates o... Read More about Understanding antenatal care use in pastoralist communities: a focused ethnographic study in Kenya.

Learning analytics of TOTEMM virtual learning resources – transforming transnational intercultural sensitivity for midwifery students through an inclusive mobility model (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PEARS, M., Henderson, J., Smit, A.-M., Van Oost, M., Borrelli, S., Walker, L., Nespoli, A., Fumagalli, S., Mets-Oja, S., Karema, A., Spiby, H., & Konstantinidis, S. .. (2023, March). Learning analytics of TOTEMM virtual learning resources – transforming transnational intercultural sensitivity for midwifery students through an inclusive mobility model. Presented at 17th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain

Equality, social inclusion, and participation of non-mobile midwifery students studying in England, Italy, Estonia and the Netherlands was of interest in this project. Five Virtual Learning Packages (VLPs) were created to address needs within materni... Read More about Learning analytics of TOTEMM virtual learning resources – transforming transnational intercultural sensitivity for midwifery students through an inclusive mobility model.

Maternal characteristics associated with referral to obstetrician-led care in low-risk pregnant women in the Netherlands: A retrospective cohort study (2023)
Journal Article
Niessink-Beckers, S., Verhoeven, C. J., Nahuis, M. J., Horvat-Gitsels, L. A., & Gitsels-van der Wal, J. T. (2023). Maternal characteristics associated with referral to obstetrician-led care in low-risk pregnant women in the Netherlands: A retrospective cohort study. PLoS ONE, 18(3), Article e0282883. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282883

Background: In the Netherlands, maternity care is divided into midwife-led care (for low-risk women) and obstetrician-led care (for high-risk women). Referrals from midwife-led to obstetrician-led care have increased over the past decade. The majorit... Read More about Maternal characteristics associated with referral to obstetrician-led care in low-risk pregnant women in the Netherlands: A retrospective cohort study.

The need for appropriate language in the debate on medicalisation of pregnancy (2023)
Journal Article
Cluver, C., de Groot, C., Mol, B. W., Murphy, K. E., Norman, J. E., Pacagnella, R., Palmer, K., Poon, L. C., Rolnik, D. L., Spong, C. Y., Stock, S. J., Thangaratinam, S., Tong, S., Verhoeven, C., Vuong, L. N., Walker, S. P., & Xiaohua, L. (2023). The need for appropriate language in the debate on medicalisation of pregnancy. Lancet, 401(10379), 818-819. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2823%2900125-3

The ethics of consent during labour and birth: episiotomies (2023)
Journal Article
van der Pijl, M., Verhoeven, C., Hollander, M., de Jonge, A., & Kingma, E. (2023). The ethics of consent during labour and birth: episiotomies. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(9), 611-617. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2022-108601

Unconsented episiotomies and other procedures during labour are commonly reported by women in several countries, and often highlighted in birth activism. Yet, forced caesarean sections aside, the ethics of consent during labour has received little at... Read More about The ethics of consent during labour and birth: episiotomies.

The natural pattern of birth timing and gestational age in the U.S. compared to England, and the Netherlands (2023)
Journal Article
Declercq, E., Wolterink, A., Rowe, R., de Jonge, A., De Vries, R., Nieuwenhuijze, M., Verhoeven, C., & Shah, N. (2023). The natural pattern of birth timing and gestational age in the U.S. compared to England, and the Netherlands. PLoS ONE, 18(1), Article e0278856. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278856

Objective To examine cross-national differences in gestational age over time in the U.S. and across three wealthy countries in 2020 as well as examine patterns of birth timing by hour of the day in home and spontaneous vaginal hospital births in the... Read More about The natural pattern of birth timing and gestational age in the U.S. compared to England, and the Netherlands.