{"title":"Survey Results Describing How Pregnant Women/People Use Communication Technology with their Midwife in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Karen Wakelin, Judith McAra-Couper, Tania Fleming","doi":"10.55975/hdng1858","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Communication technology, particularly texting, has become a mainstream way to communicate between people. In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), 91% of adult users over 18 years old own a smart phone1 which compares to smartphone use by people in Australia and the United Kingdom.2,3 Within maternity care, communication technology has enabled childbearing people to access a midwife for support and reassurance, change appointments or request health information.","PeriodicalId":35678,"journal":{"name":"Practising Midwife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Practising Midwife","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.55975/hdng1858","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Nursing","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Communication technology, particularly texting, has become a mainstream way to communicate between people. In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), 91% of adult users over 18 years old own a smart phone1 which compares to smartphone use by people in Australia and the United Kingdom.2,3 Within maternity care, communication technology has enabled childbearing people to access a midwife for support and reassurance, change appointments or request health information.