State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, P.R. China.
State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, P.R. China.
State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, P.R. China.
State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, P.R. China.
To assess trends in childbirth at a hospital-birth center among women living in Compañeros En Salud (CES)-affiliated communities in Chiapas, Mexico and explore barriers to childbirth care. Our hypothe...
This explanatory mixed-methods study included a retrospective Compañeros En Salud maternal health census review followed by quantitative surveys and semi-structured qualitative interviews....
Participants were women living in municipalities in the mountainous Sierra Madre region of Chiapas, Mexico who received prenatal care in one of 10 community clinics served by Compañeros En Salud. Part...
We compared rates of birth at the hospital-birth center, other health facilities, and at home from 2017-2018. We conducted surveys and interviews with women who gave birth between January 2017-July 20...
We found no significant difference in rates of overall number of women birthing at the hospital-birth center from Compañeros En Salud-affiliated communities between 2017 and 2018 (p=0.36). Analysis of...
Interventions to minimize logistical barriers may not be sufficient to overcome distance and perceptions of low-quality, disrespectful care....
Better understanding of complex decision-making around childbirth will guide Compañeros En Salud in developing interventions to further meet the needs and preferences of birthing women in rural Chiapa...
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the provision of global maternal health services, with an increase in home births. However, there are little data on women's decision-making and experience...
Community health volunteers (CHVs) and village leaders helped identify potential participants for an in-depth, one-on-one, qualitative telephone interview in Nairobi and Kiambu County in Kenya. In tot...
This study identified a number of economic, social, neighborhood, and health system factors that were associated with birthing at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Only one woman had planned on birth...
Addressing and recognizing women's social determinants of health is critical to ensuring that preferences on location of birth are met....
To identify the epidemiological profile of women who opted for planned home birth in a city in the north of Santa Catarina and to present the main maternal and neonatal outcomes....
Quantitative, cross-sectional research, with retrospective and documentary data collection carried out in 66 medical records of women who had planned home births from January 2012 to March 2020, in Jo...
The women who opted for planned home birth have a mean age of 31 years, are mostly white, married, with higher education, multiparous, planned pregnancy and performed prenatal care properly. Maternal ...
The evidence found proved to be satisfactory for the implementation of a new model of health care for women and children....
The use of institutional delivery services is essential for improving maternal and child health. However, studies in Liberia reveal over 20% of women still deliver at home. We assessed the prevalence ...
We conducted a cross-sectional study among 438 women of reproductive age in Margibi County. Data were obtained using a semi-structured questionnaire. A simple random sampling approach was used to sele...
Prevalence of home delivery in the County was 90.6% (95% CI = 87.5 - 93.0). Women who were ≥ 31 years (aOR = 6.74, 95%CI = 2.86-15.90), women who had two or more children (aOR = 9.68, 95%CI = 4.07-22....
The high prevalence of home delivery in the county is a call for urgent interventions by the government of Liberia and various non-governmental organizations. The government may need to supply the cou...
to understand the exercise of professional autonomy by obstetric nurses in dealing with complications in planned home births....
this is a qualitative study, supported by the Discourse of the Collective Subject methodological framework, whose data collection took place from January to March 2021, through interviews guided by a ...
four central ideas emerged from the collective discourses related to the exercise of professional autonomy by obstetric nurses: shared decisions; theoretical-practical instrumentalization; professiona...
obstetric nurses' autonomy in the face of complications reflects the safety of planned home births and is based on collective critical thinking, reinforcing this professional' leading role in obstetri...
The majority of women in Sokoto, Nigeria prefer homebirths, but midwives are reluctant to provide care in the home setting. As such, many women continue to give birth at home alone or assisted by untr...
A randomized controlled trial was conducted among 226 midwives from 10 health care facilities. The intervention group received an educational program on home birth. A validated questionnaire that eval...
Following the intervention, the intervention group demonstrated higher knowledge and more positive attitudes, norms, perceived control, and intention to provide planned home birth care compared with t...
Educating midwives on planned home birth increases their willingness to provide planned home birth care. Health system administrators, policymakers, and researchers may use similar interventions to pr...
When midwives offer birth assistance at home birth and free-standing birth centres, they must adapt their skill set. Currently, there are no comprehensive insights on the skills and knowledge that mid...
Midwifery care at home birth and in free-standing birth centres requires context specific skills, including the ability to offer low-intervention care for women who choose physiological birth in these...
To synthesise existing qualitative research that describes the skills and knowledge of certified midwives at home births and free-standing birth centres....
We conducted a systematic review that included searches on 5 databases, author runs, citation tracking, journal searches, and reference checking. Meta-ethnographic techniques of reciprocal translation...
The search identified 13 papers, twelve papers from seven countries, and one paper that included five Nordic countries. Three overarching themes and seven sub-themes were developed: 'Building trustwor...
The findings highlight that midwives integrated their sensorial experiences with their clinical knowledge of anatomy and physiology to care for women at home birth and in free-standing birth centres. ...
Maternity health care professionals' attitudes on the option of home birth can influence the choices and decisions women and their partners make about place of birth. Midwives are particularly influen...
A total of 118 Portuguese midwives were selected through intentional sampling. The procedure was divided into two phases. In the first phase, a triple translation from the original language into Portu...
After content analysis, the results confirmed a four-dimensional structure with a Cronbach's α value of 0.933 for the Provider Attitudes towards Planned Home Birth (PAPHB) scale as a whole, showing go...
The 18-item scale is a reliable and valid tool to quantify attitudes towards planned home births in Portugal as the results obtained in the study showed very good internal consistency....
Where a woman gives birth impacts both her postnatal outcomes and experiences. However, for women who plan home birth in Northern Ireland, their experiences and that of their maternity care providers ...
This study examined women's and maternity care providers' experiences and perceptions of home birth service provision in Northern Ireland....
Online surveys were used to investigate the experiences of women (n = 62) who had experienced a home birth or had a view on planned home birth and maternity care providers (n = 77) who offered home bi...
The women were all multigravida, with 39 experiencing a planned home birth and three having an intrapartum transfer. Most of the women (61.3 %; n = 38/62) knew about home birth services through social...
Most women rated their care as excellent or very good. Midwives reported limited support from colleagues for home birth provision....
There is a need to support women in their birthplace choice and empower maternity care providers to facilitate this through a fully resourced home birth service infrastructure and collegial support....
Observational studies of increasingly better quality and in different settings suggest that planned hospital birth in many places does not reduce mortality and morbidity but increases the frequency of...
To compare the effects of planned hospital birth with planned home birth attended by a midwife or others with midwifery skills and backed up by a modern hospital system in case a transfer to hospital ...
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing planned hospital birth with planned home birth in low-risk women as described in the objectives. Cluster-randomised trials, quasi-randomised trials, and t...
Two review authors independently assessed trials for inclusion and risk of bias, extracted data, and checked the data for accuracy. We contacted study authors for additional information. We assessed t...
