التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Exploring Husband Support and Attitude as a Birth Partner During Childbirth at Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia. |
| المؤلفون: |
Shafie, Zainab Mohd1, Ismail, Rohani2 rohanis@usm.my, Pereira, David Joseph2 |
| المصدر: |
Malaysian Journal of Medicine & Health Sciences. 2023 Supplement, Vol. 19, p194-200. 7p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*DOULAS, *CHILDBIRTH, *PREGNANT women, *FOCUS groups, *PUBLIC hospitals, *HUSBANDS |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
MALAYSIA |
| مستخلص: |
Introduction: Currently, all government hospitals allow husbands to be with their wives during labour. Unfortunately, many husbands have limited knowledge of the labour process and they often panic easily. This paper aims to explore husband support and attitude of being a birth partner during the labour process. Methods: This is a phenomenological qualitative study which applied focus group discussion among husbands, wives and midwives. Five focus group discussion sessions using semi structured questions were conducted at Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu. The focus group sessions involving a total of 32 participants provided sufficient data saturation for thematic content analysis. Results: The themes identified comprise of support from husband, husband's care role during pregnancy and birth, and husband's attitude during childbirth. All participants agreed that the husband is the best birth partner to provide emotional support and motivation during labour process. Conclusion: This information provides insights on specific roles and attitude for husbands to be active birth partners. It is recommended that clinicians and ward managers facilitating expectant mothers to involve husbands as birth partners during labour process. Husband involvement is necessary to provide wife with psychological support. Study findings can be incorporated into an intervention module to train husbands in providing support for their wives facing labour pain and anxiety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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