The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among the situational variables of perceived stress of the childbirth experience, perceived length and perceived difficulty of labor, selected personal variables, perceived nursing support, and postpartum depression in p…
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This thesis concerns a postpartum condition known as sobreparto among female Andean migrants in the lowland city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. While sobreparto is a traditionally Andean illness, its occurrence in the lowland city of Santa Cruz opens up new dimensions of a…
The research in this thesis aimed to develop an algorithm to support midwives’ diagnosis of active labour in primiparous women and to compare the effectiveness of the algorithm with standard care in terms of maternal and neonatal outcomes. Four linked studies are presented follo…
The aim of this study was to explore the factors that influenced women to choose care in a birth centre in the South Wales Valleys, and to ascertain their expectations and experiences of care in the antenatal period and during labour. The possibility of complications arising dur…
The thesis describes the development and testing of a new computer based systematic observation instrument designed to facilitate the recording and measurement of the quantity and quality of midwifery intrapartum support. The content of the systematic observation instrument, the…
This dissertation attempts to show how texts from the Ancient Near East, texts in the Hebrew Bible, and one text from Qumran describe life-threatening crises by means of the Birth Metaphor. Can two concepts such as birth and crisis even be compared? Birth and crisis are existent…
My doctoral thesis, “Belaboured Lives,” examines the relationship between Sunni Muslim women’s reproductive and maternal health practices, Islamic conservatism, federal and non-governmental health programming, intense Shia-Sunni conflict, interpersonal enmity and ‘occult’ forces…
Balochistan, the largest Province in Pakistan, where more than ninety percent of births are attended by traditional midwives—outside of hospitals—functions as a site whose geography and population are racialized across multiple scales in colonial and postcolonial Pakistani state…
In ancient Egypt, sexuality, fertility, and the conception of children was of central importance not just to personal identity, but also to family and social structure. Because of the significance of birth in both the physical world and in the spiritual realm, references to repr…
This research study explored the meanings attributed by migrant Arab Muslim women to their experiences of childbirth in the UK. The objectives of the study were: • To explore migrant Arab Muslim women's experiences of maternity services in the UK. • To examine the traditional ch…
Background: Migration trends by women, particularly of childbearing age, raise concerns in regard to maternity care services. In general, immigrant populations are considered vulnerable due to socioeconomic factors and political situations. Indeed, immigrants are also susceptibl…
This thesis is an examination of how women's bodies have become politicized in Hungary. I examine the state's exertion of power and control over women's bodies, mobility, and access to resources. I am looking at how the patriarchy is weaponized as a tool to suppress women and th…
This dissertation explores women’s decisions to transform the placenta from body organ into consumable good, seeking to understand how the act of ingesting the placenta allows participants to challenge societally projected binaries of edible/inedible, individual/shared, clean/di…
This thesis is about pregnancy and childbirth beliefs and practices among the Swahili people of Lamu, a predominantly Muslim town located on Lamu Island off the coast of Kenya. My research establishes that Swahili people of Lamu, who are Sunni Muslims, explain pregnancy and chil…
This study compared the differences among groups by a composite variable of culture defined by race, ethnicity and religion, focusing on Arab Muslim and Non-Arab women, in their perceptions, responses, control, satisfaction, and recall of pain during childbirth. The study includ…
This dissertation examines the ways that the people in the village of Lunyuk, Sumbawa negotiate relationships and identity in their discussions about pregnancy and childbirth. At the center of the analysis are dueling midwives: those with biomedical training (bidan) versus those…
Why life-threatening obstetric complications occur more often in some societies and not others is key to understanding the substantial variation in maternal mortality levels among poor countries. Afghan women in the mountainous region of Badakshan suffer the highest maternal mor…