Women's dissatisfaction with inappropriate behavior by health care workers during childbirth care in France: A survey study.

Background: Quality care during childbirth requires that health care providers have not only excellent skills but also appropriate and considerate attitudes and behavior. Few studies have examined the proportion of women in Western countries expressing dissatisfaction with such inappropriate or inconsiderate behavior. This study evaluated this proportion in a sample presumably representative of French maternity units.

Men's experience of first fatherhood discovery: a descriptive study based on free hierarchical evocation by associative networks.

: Men's experiences of first-fatherhood discovery differ widely with various circumstances; they were examined according to the intended/unintended occurrence of partner's pregnancy.: An Associative Network study targeted 44 first-time fathers and analysed their reactions to a stimulus-sentence 'In the first days after pregnancy announcement … ': Word-associations formed 19 themes and 5 metathemes. The main metathemes were Emotional (30%), Cognitive (27%) and Relational (23%).