Development of the Intrapartum Nurses' Beliefs Related to Birth Practice Scale.

Background And Purpose: Intrapartum (IP) nurses make decisions driven by beliefs. This study's purpose was to develop an instrument measuring birth beliefs of the IP nurse related to birth practice.

Methods: The theory of planned behavior guided the development process, providing a connection between beliefs and practice.

Reliability and validity of an instrument to measure the beliefs of intrapartum nurses.

Intrapartum nurses assume a central role in the birth process and make decisions driven by a set of beliefs. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable instrument to measure birth beliefs of intrapartum nurses related to birth practice. A total of 313 intrapartum nurses accessed this online, self-administered instrument over a 3-month period.

Deployment and PTSD in the female combat veteran: a systematic review.

Background: The number of females serving in the Gulf War has risen and continues to be a rapidly growing group. Females occupy a wide range of roles and face a myriad of challenges as they serve alongside their male counterparts in almost every role. Females are also facing redeployment, multiple deployments, and/or extended deployments.

Evaluation of the supportive needs of adolescents during childbirth intrapartum nursing intervention on adolescents' childbirth satisfaction and breastfeeding rates.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of the Supportive Needs of Adolescents during Childbirth (SNAC) intrapartum nursing intervention on adolescents' childbirth satisfaction and breastfeeding rates.

Design: Separate sample posttest quasi-experimental.

Setting: A tertiary hospital intrapartum unit.

Nurses' attitudes toward provision of care and related health outcomes.

Background: Supportive care during childbirth is as old as humankind and has been a cornerstone of intrapartum practice for decades. Researchers have postulated that supportive care during labor leads to positive outcomes by enhancing normal labor physiology and the mother's childbirth experience. Questions, however, have risen about the ability of intrapartum nurses to provide effective supportive care within today's medicalized hospital birth environment.

Adolescents' perception of support during labor.

Childbirth is a pivotal event in a woman's life. Labor support plays an important role in this experience because it influences the woman's classification of the birth experience as positive or negative. Studies of adult women have identified the type of labor support that enhances the childbirth experience.

Dimensions of professional labor support for intrapartum practice.

Purpose: To define and describe the dimensions of Professional Labor Support (PLS).

Design And Methods: A factor-analytic study was conducted with a random sample of 146 intrapartum nurses in Texas. Nurses' responses to the Labor Support Questionnaire (LSQ) were subjected to principal components analysis and descriptive analysis.

The Labor Support Questionnaire: development and psychometric analysis.

Every year approximately 4 million women in the United States experience childbirth. This event has been cited as pivotal in a woman's life. Labor support is an important part of this experience since it influences the woman's classification of the birth experience as positive or negative.

Effects of labor support on mothers, babies, and birth outcomes.

Supportive care and childbirth have been connected for all of recorded history. The impact of supportive care on health outcomes, however, has only been investigated over the last few decades. Research provides powerful evidence of improved outcomes for mothers and babies when mothers are supported in labor.