Qualitative Research Study Limitations

This means recognizing each woman’s social, emotional, physical, spiritual and cultural needs. It also acknowledge that a woman and her newborn baby does not exist independently of the woman’s social and emotional environment. This includes incorporating an understanding in assessment and provision of health care (Yanti et al., 2015). The fundamental principles of women-centred care ensures a focus on pregnancy and childbirth as the start of family life, not just as isolated clinical episodes. These motherhood phases take into complete account the meaning and the values of each woman. Providing women centred care helps women make an informed choices, being involved in and having control over their own care, this also includes their relationship with their midwives (Johnson et al., 2003). This demonstrates that midwives are able to attend for women during pregnancy, childbirth and in early parenting years. In addition to this, midwives also provide education for women in order to have a healthy lifestyle (Woods et al.,

I believe as a Midwifery Student at Australian Catholic University (ACU) that childbirth is a natural life process. Within my philosophy, my aim is to provide a women-centred care based on evidence- based practice. Also the importance of supporting women with cultural variation, social circumstance and understanding other specific needs throughout the woman’s pregnancy. The women-centred care is an essential quality to a midwife as it ensure that the women is educated in healthy lifestyle choices within pregnancy, childbirth and during parenthood. This relationship of “women-centred care” is the key to midwifery practices as Australian College of Midwives (2009) refers to the philosophy of maternity care that promotes a holistic approach by recognising each women’s social, emotional, physical, spiritual and cultural needs. In retrospect, it is important to reflect on your past experiences during your midwifery practice but also your life beyond midwifery.

The method used to study the hypothesis was by having 328 women completed five surveys up to 72 hours postpartum. They were between the ages of 18-42. Out of the group 68.6% were married or living with a partner and 43.3% had a job. The average number of years the women spent in school was 8.8yrs. More than half (59.2%), did not complete high school and only 2% (6) completed higher education. From the group, 19.2% of them had a miscarriage before. More than half (51.5%) had already

In the first article chosen, “Why are Nurses Leaving? Findings From an Initial Qualitative Study on Nursing Attrition,” the research method used was qualitative. The specific type of research design used was phenomenology. The participants were interviewed about their person experience of what it was like working as a registered nurse. The research question for this study was, “What is the experience of RNs who leave clinical nursing?” The sample is registered nurses (RN) with a minimum of 1 year of clinical practice and no clinical practice in the last 6 months. The sample size was ten, which were a majority of females (80%),

The researchers identified gaps in knowledge from the various reviews (Polit & Beck, 2010, p.185). They acknowledge that although there is an abundance of literature documenting outcome data related to management of diabetes in pregnant woman, there are few qualitative studies that explore issues of reproductive health and diabetes from the viewpoint of the woman. They highlighted a Swedish study of women's perspective and pointed out its limitations. These gaps supported the need for further study.

In conclusion, the authors research on pregnant African American women’s attitudes towards perinatal depression prevention (2013) may have open other avenues and reduce barriers and enhance the engagement in preventive intervention. The findings in this study sought out to explain why low-income African American pregnant women do not receive the same health care that other communities might. It answered questions like; do pregnant women refuse to take pharmacotherapy because they are afraid the baby will be harmed? Is their perception of certain approaches different from pregnant women of a different race or ethnicity? Or are these methods being hidden from the poor to be utilized only on the rich? When reading the critique of the article evaluated you were able to understand how well the authors analyzed each aspect by using qualitative and quantitative research and how it helped them find their results.

In the United States, the process of childbirth is far more dangerous for African American women than it is for White women. For African American women, the path to a healthy birth is riddled with barriers. There are many health disparities between the two races. African American women face much higher low-birth and infant mortality rates; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published that although infant mortality rates in the U.S. have dropped by over 10% in the past ten years, a large gap continues to exist between the health of the races during the entire childbirth process. (World Health Organization, 2010) In the United States, Black infants are more than twice as likely to die within the first year of life as a White infant, and this disparity has not seen advancements in the last century. Many of these deaths can be attributed to low birth weight, and preterm birth among black infants.

This is a research where the researchers are trying to find out how African American women think about perinatal depression prevention in comparison with African American women and white women. The researchers are also trying to figure out African American women are less likely to seek treatment for perinatal depression or to utilize any prevention methods. The researcher hypothesis is that if these women were giving information and different options to care they would seek treatment for preinatal depression either pharmacological or psychotherapy.

- pregnant women are not always full partners with clinicians in decision making- their requests aren’t abided by which could impact the collected data

In this paper I will be critiquing the research done by “Goodman, S. H., Dimidjian, S., & Williams, K. G. (2013). Pregnant African American women’s attitudes toward perinatal depression prevention”. This is an interesting article in the fact that it goes into details on depression in African American women and how they react towards the prevention of depression perinatal. In this critique, I will discuss the questions that they are asking to be answered as well as if the writers show a well-rounded synopsis of the up to date understanding about this topic and if I thought there was any prejudice. Next, I will talk about the methods that were used in this experiment if it was experimental or non-experimental, or if it was qualitative or quantitative, the way it was tested, as well as how the information was collected. Next, the ethical aspects of this study will be evaluated. The next part is that I will examine the results of this research. There will be a short synopsis of the information and outcome done in this analysis. Then, I will discuss if the researchers kept their analysis and the outcome separated from the examinations outcome. Lastly, I will explain the course for the expected study this is proposed by the writers and weigh their usefulness to this study.

This study began in 1991 when researchers visited hospitals shortly after the participants were born. Ten locations were visited. During a span of 24 hours these women

The methods were identified clearly within the article and overall appropriate for a qualitative study. The design included a household survey, focus group discussions, semi-structured in-depth interviews and structured field observations (p. 3). The interventions were adequately described within the methods section and were further detailed within the results; however limitations of the interventions included that interviews with women with speech and hearing impairments that could have affected responses, and researchers wanted to acknowledge that meaning could have been lost in the translation of non-English interviews (p. 11). The researchers added that “much of the data was self-reported, and collecting data through recall of reproductive

How the provision of information in the antenatal period can positively affect health and life style choices in the pregnant woman and her family.

Prenatal care is widely accepted as an important element in improving pregnancy outcome. (Gorrie, McKinney, Murray, 1998). Prenatal care is defined as care of a pregnant woman during the time in the maternity cycle that begins with conception and ends with the onset of labor. A medical, surgical, gynecologic, obstretic, social and family history is taken (Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary, 1998). It is important for a pregnant woman as well as our society to know that everything that you do has an effect on your baby. Because so many women opt not to receive the benefits of prenatal care, our society sees the ramification, which include a variety of complications primarily

From taking this class, I have gained significant understanding of biological determinants of women’s health. Learning about the number of unique biological risks women face is important to understand for me because I am a woman and this risks are likely to pertain to me as well. One of topic of biological aspect of women’s health we covered in class were risks factors associated with pregnancy, its complication and pregnancy itself. Understanding about maternal death and number of causes such as hemorrhage, sepsis, hypertensive, and abortion