RN RM Ph.D. FRCNA FACM Carol A. McVeigh (Deputy Head of School and Midwifery Convenor)
{"title":"Anxiety and functional status after childbirth","authors":"RN RM Ph.D. FRCNA FACM Carol A. McVeigh (Deputy Head of School and Midwifery Convenor)","doi":"10.1016/S1031-170X(00)80036-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1031-170X(00)80036-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This prospective longitudinal study explored the relationship between anxiety and functional status after childbirth. Two hundred new mothers aged 20 to 35 years who experienced a normal pregnancy and delivered a healthy term infant were surveyed using the Inventory of Functional Status After Childbirth and Spielberger's State Anxiety Inventory. All participants attended maternal child health centres in regional New South Wales, Australia. Results revealed a significant increase in functional status during the first six months postpartum and significant correlations were found between functional status and maternal anxiety at six weeks, three months and six months postpartum. The more anxious mothers were also significantly more likely than less anxious mothers to have an unsettled baby, a baby that slept fewer hours at night and were significantly less satisfied with motherhood. Assessing maternal anxiety levels may assist midwives identify women at risk of parenting difficulties and psychological distress postpartum.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77020,"journal":{"name":"Australian College of Midwives Incorporated journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"Pages 14-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1031-170X(00)80036-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21932459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tribute to Henny Ligtermoet—Birth activist and midwife's friend","authors":"Carol Thorogood","doi":"10.1016/S1031-170X(00)80039-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1031-170X(00)80039-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77020,"journal":{"name":"Australian College of Midwives Incorporated journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"Pages 26-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1031-170X(00)80039-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21932465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RM RN BEd BA(Psych) Heather Hancock (Senior Lecturer), RN MEd PhD Carolyn Emden (Scholar in Residence), RN BA(Communication Studies) MA (Women's Studies) Sandra Schubert (Independent Researcher), RN BN Grad Dip Women's Studies Amanda Haller
{"title":"They were different and few: An Australian study of midwives' attitudes to research and computerised research findings","authors":"RM RN BEd BA(Psych) Heather Hancock (Senior Lecturer), RN MEd PhD Carolyn Emden (Scholar in Residence), RN BA(Communication Studies) MA (Women's Studies) Sandra Schubert (Independent Researcher), RN BN Grad Dip Women's Studies Amanda Haller","doi":"10.1016/S1031-170X(00)80035-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1031-170X(00)80035-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study sought to determine factors influencing the utilisation of research findings by Australian midwives before and after exposure to an on-line research database within their practice setting. The setting was a large maternity hospital in South Australia and data were collected via pre and post intervention questionnaires. 14 midwives from the Delivery Suite and Birth Centre of this hospital participated in the study. Midwives showed an increased receptivity to the concept of computerised research findings after exposure to the database. They rated research as highly important to providing quality midwifery care and for the midwifery profession, and saw midwives as the key players in maternity care research. These findings are not in keeping with previous research — largely accounted for, we believe, by the particular, and small number of, midwives who volunteered to participate in the study (24% of those invited).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77020,"journal":{"name":"Australian College of Midwives Incorporated journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"Pages 7-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1031-170X(00)80035-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21931267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A daughter's tribute","authors":"Margaret Slattery (Clinical Midwife Consultant)","doi":"10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80029-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80029-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Margaret and her 2 brothers grew up in the small township of Robinvale, which is a soldier settlement area on the Murray River near Mildura. During their childhood years they frequently holidayed with the families of the women who, with their mum, shared 3 1/2 years as Japanese Prisoners of War. It was not until Margaret was in her teenage years that she began to understand the horrors these women had endued. Margaret has travelled with her mother to reunions around Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Their common nursing backgrounds and this understanding added additional bonds to their mother/daughter relationship.</p><p>Like her mother almost 40 years earlier, Margaret trained as a nurse at Mildura Base Hospital between 1967–69. She completed her Midwifery in 1970 at the Royal Women's Hospital, Brisbane and has worked exclusively in this field since then. She completed her Nursing Degree at Curtin University WA, her Graduate Diploma Nurse Education and Masters in Health Management at the University of New England in Armidale NSW. She was also a Army Reserve Nursing Officer from 1980 to 1991.</p><p>Margaret has worked in most Australian States due to her husband's military career including 15 months living in Singapore in the mid 70s. They moved to Canberra in 1989 and Margaret has worked in the Maternity Unit as Educator, & Manager before being appointed to her current position as Clinical Midwife Consultant for Maternity and Gynaecology Outpatient Services at The Canberra Hospital in 1994.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77020,"journal":{"name":"Australian College of Midwives Incorporated journal","volume":"12 4","pages":"Pages 27-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80029-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21699220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Once upon a time …","authors":"RM FACM Pauline Glover (Honorary Editor)","doi":"10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80021-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80021-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77020,"journal":{"name":"Australian College of Midwives Incorporated journal","volume":"12 4","pages":"Pages 3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80021-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56367136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"President's report — December 1999","authors":"Vanessa Owen","doi":"10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80023-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80023-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77020,"journal":{"name":"Australian College of Midwives Incorporated journal","volume":"12 4","pages":"Page 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80023-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56367148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Focus on fellows","authors":"FACM Trish David","doi":"10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80028-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80028-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77020,"journal":{"name":"Australian College of Midwives Incorporated journal","volume":"12 4","pages":"Pages 23-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80028-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56367161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Graduate Diploma Nursing (Midwifery); of Nursing; Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) Bachelor of Nursing; Diploma of Nursing Jenni James
{"title":"Working & breastfeeding: A contemporary workplace dilemma","authors":"Graduate Diploma Nursing (Midwifery); of Nursing; Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) Bachelor of Nursing; Diploma of Nursing Jenni James","doi":"10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80024-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80024-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The benefits of breastfeeding are well known and widely documented. What we are only beginning to understand is the significant impact of returning to work on the experience of breastfeeding. This article describes workplace issues, discusses current literature and examines the range of influences that impact on women's decisions about working and breastfeeding</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77020,"journal":{"name":"Australian College of Midwives Incorporated journal","volume":"12 4","pages":"Pages 8-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80024-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21699216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Midwifery, politics and survival","authors":"Jill White (Dean and Professor)","doi":"10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80025-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80025-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77020,"journal":{"name":"Australian College of Midwives Incorporated journal","volume":"12 4","pages":"Pages 12-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1031-170X(99)80025-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21699217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}