Women and partners' experiences of critical perinatal events: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to explore women and partners' experiences following critical perinatal events.

Design

This is a qualitative interview study. We conducted semistructured individual interviews with women and their partners in separate rooms. Interviews were analysed thematically and validated by a transdisciplinary group of anthropologists, obstetricians and a midwife.

Setting

Department of obstetrics at a tertiary referral university hospital in Denmark.

Participants

Women and partners who had experienced a critical perinatal event within the past 3-12 months.

Results

We conducted 17 interviews and identified three main themes: (1) ambivalence towards medicalisation, (2) the extended temporality of a critical birth and (3) postnatal l

SUBMITTER: Navne LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7500299 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature