Educating future professionals in perinatal medicine: the attitude of medical and nursing students towards childbirth
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Ernesto González-Mesa
,
Olga Cazorla-Granados
,
Marta Blasco-Alonso
,
Lorena Sabonet
,
Jesús S. Jiménez-López
und
Cristóbal Rengel-Díaz
Abstract
Objectives
The main objective of the present study was to evaluate what educational needs were being neglected in current perinatal educational program in the University of Malaga.
Methods
We performed a cross-sectional study using the Students’ questionnaire on attitudes towards childbirth (CAVE-st) in a sample of 378 students who were finishing their undergraduate or postgraduate academic perinatal program, including medical and nursing students.
Results
The Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient was 0.895. The mean score of CAVE-st in the sample was 200.34 (DT 21.0). The scores were below the median value in more than 53% of the students, especially in medical students. Female students scored systematically higher in the overall scale and its subscales, even after adjusting for study groups. On the other hand, the students with children scored significantly lower in the subscale that explored their attitudes towards unexpected results. A huge margin for improvement was recognizable in those subscales related with childbirth medicalization, respect to women decisions, and health-care prioritization.
Conclusions
Students’ attitude towards childbirth need to be improved as a means to improve women’s childbirth experience and prevent birth-related trauma. The current undergraduate and postgraduate training in perinatal care lacks a comprehensive and biopsychosocial perspective that would improve the quality of clinical practice during childbirth.
Acknowledgments
This research was performed according to the objectives of the project COST-18211. We acknowledge the contributions of all participating students.
Research funding: None declared.
Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
Ethical approval: Ethical permission was obtained from the CEI provincial (Institutional Reviews Board) of the University of Malaga.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- In Memorian
- Robert L. Brent, MD, PhD (1927–2021)
- Review
- Implications of the vaginal microbiome and potential restorative strategies on maternal health: a narrative review
- Original Articles – Obstetrics
- Disorders of placental villous maturation are present in one-third of cases with spontaneous preterm labor
- Gestational iron deficiency anemia is associated with preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, and postpartum infections
- Women with high plasma levels of PBDE-47 are at increased risk of preterm birth
- Racial disparities in recurrent preterm delivery risk: mediation analysis of prenatal care timing
- Doppler ultrasonography of the uterine artery in correlation with KANET
- The cumulative impact of parity on the body mass index (BMI) in a non-selected Lower Saxony population
- The relation between second-trimester placental elasticity and poor obstetric outcomes in low-risk pregnancies
- Comparison of pregnancy outcomes after second trimester amniocentesis between procedures performed by experts and non-experts
- Effect of vitamin D3 supplementation during pregnancy on high risk factors — a randomized controlled trial
- Educating future professionals in perinatal medicine: the attitude of medical and nursing students towards childbirth
- Original Articles – Fetus
- Normal values of cardiac axis (CA) measurements in healthy fetuses during the first trimester screening ultrasound
- Original Articles – Neonates
- Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on breastfeeding rates in a neonatal intensive care unit
- Factors associated with extubation failure in very low birth weight infants: a cohort study in the northeast Brazil
- Perinatal outcome of in vitro fertilization pregnancies in women with polycystic ovary syndrome by pregravid BMI
- Evaluation of audio-voice guided application for neonatal resuscitation: a prospective, randomized, pilot study
- Letter to the Editor
- Systematic screening for SARS-CoV-2 in pregnant women admitted for delivery: not as easy as it sounds
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- In Memorian
- Robert L. Brent, MD, PhD (1927–2021)
- Review
- Implications of the vaginal microbiome and potential restorative strategies on maternal health: a narrative review
- Original Articles – Obstetrics
- Disorders of placental villous maturation are present in one-third of cases with spontaneous preterm labor
- Gestational iron deficiency anemia is associated with preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, and postpartum infections
- Women with high plasma levels of PBDE-47 are at increased risk of preterm birth
- Racial disparities in recurrent preterm delivery risk: mediation analysis of prenatal care timing
- Doppler ultrasonography of the uterine artery in correlation with KANET
- The cumulative impact of parity on the body mass index (BMI) in a non-selected Lower Saxony population
- The relation between second-trimester placental elasticity and poor obstetric outcomes in low-risk pregnancies
- Comparison of pregnancy outcomes after second trimester amniocentesis between procedures performed by experts and non-experts
- Effect of vitamin D3 supplementation during pregnancy on high risk factors — a randomized controlled trial
- Educating future professionals in perinatal medicine: the attitude of medical and nursing students towards childbirth
- Original Articles – Fetus
- Normal values of cardiac axis (CA) measurements in healthy fetuses during the first trimester screening ultrasound
- Original Articles – Neonates
- Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on breastfeeding rates in a neonatal intensive care unit
- Factors associated with extubation failure in very low birth weight infants: a cohort study in the northeast Brazil
- Perinatal outcome of in vitro fertilization pregnancies in women with polycystic ovary syndrome by pregravid BMI
- Evaluation of audio-voice guided application for neonatal resuscitation: a prospective, randomized, pilot study
- Letter to the Editor
- Systematic screening for SARS-CoV-2 in pregnant women admitted for delivery: not as easy as it sounds
