Yvonne J Kuipers, Yvonne Greig, Sandra Atencia Martinez, Maria King, Caroline Hollins Martin
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Abstract
Background: Emotional touchpoints are moments during perinatal care that evoke an emotional response in a woman. There is a lack of knowledge regarding the centrality of how touchpoints and emotions are framed in the real-life experiences of childbearing women.
Aim: To explore how birth-related emotional touchpoints interact and how the emotions in the context of these healthcare experiences interact.
Methods: We performed a systematic mixed studies review to capture childbearing women's prospective and retrospective reports of birth expectations and experiences. We conducted a literature search in CINAHL (EBSCO), Medline (EBSCO), PubMed, Web of Science, and Ovid, followed by hand searching and forward and backward citation searching from the included articles. We performed a quality appraisal using the Critical Appraisal Skills Program. We used Epistemic Network Analysis to model and visualize the connections and structure of the emotional touchpoints and the emotions.
Results: We included 28 articles, showing overall moderate quality. We constructed two models, one of emotional touchpoints and one of emotions. The emotional touchpoints model showed a strong connection between Coping and the Process of Labor & Birth and between the Process of Labor & Birth and Beliefs (belief systems) about Labor & Birth. The primary emotions model showed strong connections between Joy and Fear, between Fear and Sadness and between Sadness and Joy.
Conclusions: This paper illustrates how the multidimensionality of birth-related emotional touchpoints and the positive and negative emotions prospectively and retrospectively reported by pregnant and postpartum women were distilled-informing the conversation between care providers and childbearing women.
背景:情感接触点是围产期护理中引起女性情绪反应的时刻。关于接触点和情感如何在育龄妇女的现实生活经历中形成的中心地位,人们缺乏知识。目的:探讨与出生相关的情感接触点是如何相互作用的,以及这些医疗保健经验背景下的情感是如何相互作用的。方法:我们进行了一项系统的混合研究综述,以捕获育龄妇女对生育期望和经历的前瞻性和回顾性报告。我们在CINAHL (EBSCO)、Medline (EBSCO)、PubMed、Web of Science和Ovid中进行文献检索,然后对纳入的文章进行手动检索和前后引文检索。我们使用关键评估技能程序进行了质量评估。我们使用认知网络分析来建模和可视化情感接触点和情感的连接和结构。结果:我们纳入了28篇文章,总体质量中等。我们构建了两个模型,一个是情感接触点,一个是情感。情感接触点模型显示了应对与分娩过程之间以及分娩过程与分娩信念(信念系统)之间的强烈联系。初级情绪模型显示出喜悦与恐惧、恐惧与悲伤、悲伤与快乐之间的强烈联系。结论:本文阐述了如何提取孕妇和产后妇女的分娩相关情绪接触点的多维度以及前瞻性和回顾性报告的积极情绪和消极情绪-为护理人员和育龄妇女之间的对话提供信息。
期刊介绍:
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health provides the latest peer-reviewed, policy-relevant research and analysis on sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and other developed countries. For more than four decades, Perspectives has offered unique insights into how reproductive health issues relate to one another; how they are affected by policies and programs; and their implications for individuals and societies. Published four times a year, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health includes original research, special reports and commentaries on the latest developments in the field of sexual and reproductive health, as well as staff-written summaries of recent findings in the field.