A five-country comparison of midwifery students' confidence in facilitating normal labor and birth
Interacting with a mentor midwife that supports physiological birth and is respectful of students, and repeated exposure to birth environments that privilege women-centered physiological birth are crucial to ensuring midwifery students can transition to confident midwifery professionals who are advocates for physiological birth. Didactic education that emphasizes the basic physiological and psychological principles that underlie midwifery care processes, contributes to midwifery student confidence for supporting normal birth.
Authors
- Juliet Wood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7033-3201)
- Cindy L. Farley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7606-2609)
- Jalana Lazar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5724-3634)
- Barbara Baranowska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2723-9604)
- Jane Fry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2594-8223)
- Emma Ritchie
- Maria Węgrzynowska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2664-2653)
- Clare Davison
- Urszula Tataj–Puzyna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9800-3434)
- Felicity Agwu Kalu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2675-886X)
- Debora Dole (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3417-8961)
- Maria Healy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3729-7285)
Institutions
- Edith Cowan University (AU)
- Georgetown University (US)
- Charles Darwin University (AU)
- Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine (PL)
- American Association of Nurse Practitioners (US)
- Bournemouth University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Midwifery
- Published
- 2025-10-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.18332/ejm/210325
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.06