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Woman’s Needs and Satisfaction Regarding the Communication with Doctors and Midwives during Labour, Delivery and Early Postpartum

The study aimed to identify the difference in communication needs of women giving birth and women during early postpartum. An additional goal includes the analysis of the experience and communication needs through the context of a woman’s approach to childbirth. The study is a cross-sectional, self-...

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Autores principales: Baranowska, Barbara, Pawlicka, Paulina, Kiersnowska, Iwona, Misztal, Alicja, Kajdy, Anna, Sys, Dorota, Doroszewska, Antonina
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8066117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33915688
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040382
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author Baranowska, Barbara
Pawlicka, Paulina
Kiersnowska, Iwona
Misztal, Alicja
Kajdy, Anna
Sys, Dorota
Doroszewska, Antonina
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Pawlicka, Paulina
Kiersnowska, Iwona
Misztal, Alicja
Kajdy, Anna
Sys, Dorota
Doroszewska, Antonina
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description The study aimed to identify the difference in communication needs of women giving birth and women during early postpartum. An additional goal includes the analysis of the experience and communication needs through the context of a woman’s approach to childbirth. The study is a cross-sectional, self-report survey; 521 women between 5 and 10 days after birth participated in the study. Women perceived information provided by the medical staff as the most helpful aspect of verbal communication both during labour and early postpartum. Maintaining eye contact with the medical staff was perceived as the most helpful aspect of non-verbal communication. Women were more satisfied with communication during labour and birth than in the maternity ward and those after non-instrumental childbirth were more satisfied with communication compared to the instrumental birth group. Women perceiving childbirth as the natural, physiological process considered verbal and non-verbal communication during and after childbirth as less helpful than women perceiving birth as more risky and requiring interventions. The results of the study emphasize the importance of verbal and non-verbal communication during birth and early postpartum and at the same time different communication needs during these two time points. It also showed that women who perceive labour as a physiological process seem to be less dependent on the communication with the medical staff than women who accept medical interventions during labour and birth as necessary.
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spelling pubmed-80661172021-04-25 Woman’s Needs and Satisfaction Regarding the Communication with Doctors and Midwives during Labour, Delivery and Early Postpartum Baranowska, Barbara Pawlicka, Paulina Kiersnowska, Iwona Misztal, Alicja Kajdy, Anna Sys, Dorota Doroszewska, Antonina Healthcare (Basel) Article The study aimed to identify the difference in communication needs of women giving birth and women during early postpartum. An additional goal includes the analysis of the experience and communication needs through the context of a woman’s approach to childbirth. The study is a cross-sectional, self-report survey; 521 women between 5 and 10 days after birth participated in the study. Women perceived information provided by the medical staff as the most helpful aspect of verbal communication both during labour and early postpartum. Maintaining eye contact with the medical staff was perceived as the most helpful aspect of non-verbal communication. Women were more satisfied with communication during labour and birth than in the maternity ward and those after non-instrumental childbirth were more satisfied with communication compared to the instrumental birth group. Women perceiving childbirth as the natural, physiological process considered verbal and non-verbal communication during and after childbirth as less helpful than women perceiving birth as more risky and requiring interventions. The results of the study emphasize the importance of verbal and non-verbal communication during birth and early postpartum and at the same time different communication needs during these two time points. It also showed that women who perceive labour as a physiological process seem to be less dependent on the communication with the medical staff than women who accept medical interventions during labour and birth as necessary. MDPI 2021-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8066117/ /pubmed/33915688 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040382 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33915688
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040382
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