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An integrative review of supportive relationships between child‐bearing women and midwives

An integrative review of supportive relationships between child‐bearing women and midwives What Is Known About This Topic?The physical and emotional support midwives provide to child‐bearing women can contribute to positive child‐bearing experiences and birth outcomes.Not all women perceive their relationships with midwives as supportive.Organizational factors, such as staffing ratios and workload issues, may impede midwives' abilities to build supportive relationships with women.Continuity of care models facilitate the development of supportive relationships.What Does This Paper Add?Midwives can facilitate the development of supportive relationships, through effective communication skills, mutual trust, respect, and partnership.Workplace culture within maternity units, affects midwives' abilities to develop and maintain supportive relationships with women.The socio‐cultural context in which women and midwives live and work further impacts their abilities to develop and maintain supportive relationships.There is a lack of knowledge about how supportive relationships are developed in maternity units, especially where continuity of care is not practised.What Are the Implications for Practices and Policies?More research is needed to explore the best approach and most effective strategies for developing supportive relationships, within existing models of care.Further research is required to understand how the cultural identities of both women and midwives affect the development of supportive relationships.INTRODUCTIONA key aspect of maternity care is a supportive relationship between the child‐bearing woman and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nursing Open Wiley

An integrative review of supportive relationships between child‐bearing women and midwives

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Wiley
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© 2023 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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2054-1058
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2054-1058
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10.1002/nop2.1447
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What Is Known About This Topic?The physical and emotional support midwives provide to child‐bearing women can contribute to positive child‐bearing experiences and birth outcomes.Not all women perceive their relationships with midwives as supportive.Organizational factors, such as staffing ratios and workload issues, may impede midwives' abilities to build supportive relationships with women.Continuity of care models facilitate the development of supportive relationships.What Does This Paper Add?Midwives can facilitate the development of supportive relationships, through effective communication skills, mutual trust, respect, and partnership.Workplace culture within maternity units, affects midwives' abilities to develop and maintain supportive relationships with women.The socio‐cultural context in which women and midwives live and work further impacts their abilities to develop and maintain supportive relationships.There is a lack of knowledge about how supportive relationships are developed in maternity units, especially where continuity of care is not practised.What Are the Implications for Practices and Policies?More research is needed to explore the best approach and most effective strategies for developing supportive relationships, within existing models of care.Further research is required to understand how the cultural identities of both women and midwives affect the development of supportive relationships.INTRODUCTIONA key aspect of maternity care is a supportive relationship between the child‐bearing woman and

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Nursing Open – Wiley

Published: Mar 1, 2023

Keywords: barriers; experience; facilitators; integrative review; maternity; midwife‐woman relationship; midwives; nurses; relationship; supportive

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