Mothers' involvement in decision making during the birthing process: A quantitative analysis of women's online birth stories

Health Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-39

  Bylund, Carma L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LABOR; LITERATURE; MOTHER; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; ANECDOTES; COMMUNICATION; EMOTIONS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MOTHERS; NARRATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 24944551339     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327027hc1801_2     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Adams, R., Smith, B. J., & Ruffin, R. E. (2001). Impact of the physician's participatory style in asthma outcomes and patient satisfaction. Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 86, 263-271.
2. American College of Nurse-Midwives. (n.d.). Thinking of using a nurse-midwife? Retrieved May 8, 2005, from http://www.midwife.org/focus
3. Berg, A., Yuval, D., Ivancovsky, M., Zalcberg, S., Dubani, A., & Benbassat, J. (2001). Patient perception of involvement in medical care during labor and delivery. Israel Medical Association Journal, 3, 352-356.
4. Blais, R., Lambert, J., Maheux, B., Loiselle, J., Gauthier, N., & Famarin, A. (1994). Controversies in maternity care: Where do physicians, nurses, and midwives stand? Birth, 21, 63-70.
5. Braddock, C. H., Fihn, S. D., Levinson, W., Jonsen, A. R., & Pearlman, R. A. (1997). How doctors and patients discuss routine clinical decisions: Informed decision making in the outpatient setting. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 12, 339-345.
6. Bramadat, I. J., & Driedger, M. (1993). Satisfaction with childbirth: Theories and methods of measurement. Birth, 20, 22-29.
7. Brown, S., & Lumley, J. (1994). Satisfaction with care in labor and birth: A survey of 790 Australian women. Birth, 21, 4-13.
8. Bylund, C. L., & Imes, R. S. (2005). Communication and medical decision making in context: Choosing between reasonable options. In E. B. Ray (Ed.), Case studies in health communication (2nd ed., 69-80). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
9. Charles, C., Gafni, A., & Whelan, T. (1997). Shared decision-making in the medical encounter: What does it mean? (Or it takes at least two to tango). Social Science and Medicine, 44, 681-692.
10. DiMatteo, M. R., Kahn, K. L., & Berry, S. H. (1993). Narratives of birth and the postpartum: Analysis of the focus group responses of new mothers. Birth, 20, 204-211.
11. Drew, N. C., Salmon, P., & Webb, L. (1989). Mothers', midwives' and obstetricians' views on the features of obstetric care which influence satisfaction with childbirth. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 96, 1084-1088.
12. England, S. L, & Evans, J. (1992). Patients' choices and perceptions after an invitation to participate in treatment decisions. Social Science & Medicine, 34, 1217-1225.
13. Fisher, W. R. (1987). Human communication as narration: Toward a philosophy of reason, value and action. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
14. Gattellari, M., Butow, P. N., & Tattersall, M. H. (2001). Sharing decisions in cancer care. Social Science and Medicine, 52, 1865-1878.
15. Goffman, E. (1974). Frame analysis: An essay on the organization of experience. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
16. Green, J. M., Coupland, V. A., & Kitzinger, J. V. (1990). Expectations, experiences, and psychological outcomes of childbirth: A prospective study of 825 women. Birth, 17, 15-24.
17. Greenfield, S., Kaplan, S., & Ware, J. E. (1985). Expanding patient involvement in care. Annals of Internal Medicine, 102, 520-528.
18. Greenfield, S., Kaplan, S., Ware, J. E., Yano, E. M., & Frank, H. J. L. (1988). Patients' participation in medical care: Effects on blood sugar control and quality of life in diabetes. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 3, 448-457.
19. Guadagnoli, E., & Ward, P. (1998). Patient participation in decision-making. Social Science and Medicine, 47, 329-339.
20. Kaplan, S. H., Greenfield, S., Gandek, B., Rogers, W. H., & Ware, J. E. (1996). Characteristics of physicians with participatory decision-making styles. Annals of Internal Medicine, 124, 497-504.
21. Lazarus, E. (1997). What do women want? Issues of choice, control, and class in American pregnancy and childbirth. In R. E. Davis-Floyd & C. F. Sargent (Eds.), Childbirth and authoritative knowledge: Cross cultural perspectives (pp. 132-158). Berkeley: University of California Press.
22. Makoul, G., Arntson, P., & Schoefield, T. (1995). Health promotion in primary care: Physician-patient communication and decision making about prescription medicines. Social Science & Medicine, 41, 1241-1254.
23. Ochs, E., & Capps, L. (1996). Narrating the self. Annual Review of Anthropology, 25, 19-43.
24. Page, L. (1995). Change and power in midwifery. Birth, 22, 227-231.
25. Page, R. E. (2002). Evaluating in childbirth narratives told by women and men. Discourse Studies, 4, 99-116.
26. Pollock, D. (1999). Telling bodies: Performing birth. New York: Columbia University Press.
27. Reese, E. (1996). Conceptions of self in mother-child birth stories. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 6, 23-38.
28. Robinson, K. M. (2001). Unsolicited narratives from the Internet: A rich source of qualitative data. Qualitative Health Research, 11, 706-714.
29. Roter, D. L., Geller, G., Bernhardt, B. A., Larson, S. M., & Doksum, T. (1999). Effects of obstetrician gender on communication and patient satisfaction. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 93, 635-641.
30. Roter, D. L., Hall, J. A., & Aoki, Y. (2002). Physician gender effects in medical communication: A meta-analytic review. Journal of the American Medical Association, 288, 756-764.
31. Simkin, P. (1991). Just another day in a woman's life? Part 1: Women's long-term perceptions of their first birth experience. Birth, 18, 203-210.
32. Simkin, P. (1992). Just another day in a woman's life? Part II: Nature and consistency of women's long-term memories of their first birth experience. Birth, 19, 64-81.
33. Soparkar, A. A. (1998). The telling of childbirth stories. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts.
34. Stewart, M. A., Brown, J. B., Boon, H., Galajda, B. A., Meredith, L., & Sangster, M. (1999). Evidence on doctor-patient communication. Cancer Prevention & Control, 3, 25-30.
35. Street, R. L., & Millay, B. (2001). Analyzing patient participation in medical encounters. Health Communication, 13, 61-73.
36. VandeVusse, L. (1999). Decision-making in analyses of women's birth stories. Birth, 26, 43-50.
37. Waldenstrom, U., Borg, I., Olsson, B., Skold, M., & Wall, S. (1996). The childbirth experience: A study of 295 new mothers. Birth, 23, 144-153.
38. Zadoroznyj, M. (1999). Social class, social selves and social control in childbirth. Sociology of Health and Illness, 21, 267-289.