Influencing factors in midwives' decision-making during childbirth: A qualitative study in the Netherlands.

CONCLUSION: The decision-making process during childbirth is multi-factorial. The women's needs and wishes are recognized as of great influence on the decision-making process during childbirth, which is not included as a factor in the hypothetico-deductive or the intuitive-humanist theory. IMPLICATION FOR PRACTICE: The influence of women's needs and wishes should be part of models about the intra-partum decision-making process. Midwives should find strategies to support women to make well-informed choices that include adequate information on the consequences of medicalisation in obstetric-led care. PMID: 29935989 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Women Birth - Category: Midwifery Authors: Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research