The views of postnatal women and midwives on midwives providing contraceptive advice and methods: a mixed method concurrent study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Provision of contraception to women in the immediate postnatal period has been endorsed by professional bodies, to reduce the incidence of short inter-pregnancy intervals. This study examined the views of postnatal women and practising midwives regarding provision of contraceptive advice and contraceptive methods by midwives, in a region of the United Kingdom.

Methods

A mixed-method approach using qualitative interviews with midwives, and a postnatal survey followed by qualitative interviews with postnatal women, in five hospitals in the East of England. Twenty-one practising midwives and ten women were interviewed. Two hundred and twenty-seven women returned a survey. Survey data was analysed descriptively, augmented by Student's t-tests and Chi-squared tests to

SUBMITTER: Walker SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8170056 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature