Nurse-midwives' experiences with planned home birth: Impact on attitudes and practice

Birth

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 274-282

  Vedam, Saraswathi ^a   Stoll, Kathrin ^b   White, Sarah ^b   Aaker, Jessica ^b   Schummers, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attitudes; Home birth; Maternity care providers; Midwifery; Nurse midwives; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSULTATION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEAR; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NURSE MIDWIFE; PEER GROUP; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; RATING SCALE; SAFETY; TIME; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70450247072     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2009.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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