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Joanne Farrugia Imbroll ; Josephine Attard | 2022Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (2014) states that women with low-risk pregnancies should be offered the opportunity to labour in water. There is a dearth of research investigating the link between the availability of water immersion (WI) in facilities and midwives' knowledge, perceived benefits and concerns, ...
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Lara Caruana ; Josephine Attard | 2021Physical activity during pregnancy provides health benefits to mothers, including improvement of body image satisfaction (Boscaglia et al 2003), reduction in lower back pain (Garshasbi & Faghih Zadeh 2005), prevention of excessive weight gain (Lamina & Agbanusi 2013) and a reduction in the rate of assisted vaginal births and caesarean sections (Barakat et al 2012). The ...
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Christina Zerafa ; Josephine Attard | 2021Opioids help control the pain and stress of labour and are widely used globally in midwifery practice, particularly in developed countries (El-Wahab Robinson 2014). The most-used opioids in labour include fentanyl, diamorphine and pethidine. Each woman in labour will respond in a different way to opioids but there is evidence that, ...
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Bernice Scicluna ; Josephine Attard | 2021According to Trends in maternal mortality (World Health Organization (WHO) 2019), infection remains the second highest cause of maternal mortality, although there has been a drop of 38 per cent worldwide, with 94 per cent of maternal deaths recorded in low- and middle- income countries. As midwives care for pregnant women, for women ...
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Wilfred MCSherry, Éditeur scientifique ; Adam Boughey, Éditeur scientifique ; Josephine Attard, Éditeur scientifique | Cham [Suisse] : Springer | 2021This book is the first of its kind, addressing key issues in the teaching and learning of spirituality and spiritual care in the context of nursing and midwifery practice. The content is based on the outcomes of a European-wide project (EPICC) that brought together leading nursing and midwifery educators and ...
