Agenda Item Details
Day 4   Saturday Oct 14, 2017
10:15 - 11:45am
Concurrent Session E05 - Labour and Birth
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E05-1 Empowering the Birth of a Family: A Photovoice Project to Assess Family-Centred Maternity Care

 

Author: Darcie Sparks, RN, BSN, PhD Student

 

Purpose: The purpose of the project was to trial a participatory action research photovoice strategy to explore the presence of Family-Centred Maternity Care (FCMC) philosophy in the current delivery of maternity care in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, prior to a future change in the model of care to Single Room Maternity Care.

 

Learning Objectives: 

  • Be able to build a concrete understanding of family centered maternity care philosophy and principles at the end of the presentation.
  • Understand the participatory action research strategy of photovoice.
  • Show an understanding of how photo voice was utilized to give a family a voice in order to impact and bring about changes to the provision of maternal/infant care.

Presenters: Darcie Sparks, University of Saskatchewan College of Nursing, Saskatoon SK

 

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E05-2 The Influence of Environments on Fear of Childbirth During Women's Intrapartum Hospital Stays

 

Authors: Jenny Auxier, RN, BSN; Wendy Hall, RN, PhD

 

Purpose: About 25% Canadian women report fear of childbirth (FOC). FOC has been associated with women's preference for cesarean births. Researchers have estimated that 20% of women in developed countries report FOC. Most Canadian women give birth in hospitals. Evidence suggests that hospital birth environments affect women’s perceptions of FOC; similar effects could be anticipated in British Columbia which has one of the highest Canadian cesarean section rates. Studying hospital birth environments to identify whether or how structures, stimuli, and people influence FOC is important to our comprehension of women’s FOC. Therefore, this study aimed to explore women’s perceptions of the effects of hospital birth environments on their FOC. The research question was: What are women’s perceptions of the influence of environments on FOC during their intrapartum hospital stays?

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Specify connections between fear of childbirth and negative maternal birth outcomes.
  • Identify factors influencing women's fear of childbirth during labours and births in hospital environments.
  • Articulate strategies to reduce women's fear of childbirth.

Presenter: Jenny Auxier, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC

 

 

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