A qualitative study of midwives’ challenges to support transmen during childbirth: A short report

INTRODUCTION: Individuals who are transgender often want a family and want to be validated as fathers, but may lack support in the reproductive health field. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore midwives’ perceptions regarding caring for transmen during labour and birth. METHODS: Five mi...

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Autores principales: Johansson, Margareta, Wirén, Andrea A., Ssempasa, Damali, Wells, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Publishing 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7839083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33537605
http://dx.doi.org/10.18332/ejm/116410
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Wirén, Andrea A.
Ssempasa, Damali
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description INTRODUCTION: Individuals who are transgender often want a family and want to be validated as fathers, but may lack support in the reproductive health field. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore midwives’ perceptions regarding caring for transmen during labour and birth. METHODS: Five midwives were recruited from Stockholm-area hospitals, with interviews lasting 17 minutes on average. Qualitative content analysis using an inductive approach was used. RESULTS: Our findings describe the challenges midwives face when caring for transmen in childbirth, including a lack of knowledge, confusion on working with transgender, how to provide individualized support, and the complexity of childbirth. CONCLUSIONS: The midwives faced challenges when caring for transmen in childbirth. Since midwives lacked knowledge regarding best practices to support transmen, they wanted to receive more education on how to care for transmen during birth.
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spelling pubmed-78390832021-02-02 A qualitative study of midwives’ challenges to support transmen during childbirth: A short report Johansson, Margareta Wirén, Andrea A. Ssempasa, Damali Wells, Michael Eur J Midwifery Short Report INTRODUCTION: Individuals who are transgender often want a family and want to be validated as fathers, but may lack support in the reproductive health field. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore midwives’ perceptions regarding caring for transmen during labour and birth. METHODS: Five midwives were recruited from Stockholm-area hospitals, with interviews lasting 17 minutes on average. Qualitative content analysis using an inductive approach was used. RESULTS: Our findings describe the challenges midwives face when caring for transmen in childbirth, including a lack of knowledge, confusion on working with transgender, how to provide individualized support, and the complexity of childbirth. CONCLUSIONS: The midwives faced challenges when caring for transmen in childbirth. Since midwives lacked knowledge regarding best practices to support transmen, they wanted to receive more education on how to care for transmen during birth. European Publishing 2020-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7839083/ /pubmed/33537605 http://dx.doi.org/10.18332/ejm/116410 Text en © 2020 Johansson M. et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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