The Subjective Experience of Social Stigma on Mental Health among Cisgender Women Sex Workers in Colombia.

This qualitative and phenomenological study, through 16 in-depth face-to-face interviews and two discussion groups, elucidates the subjective experience of social stigma on mental health among 34 cisgender women sex workers in Colombia. After reflective and inductive thematic analysis of the data, two general themes emerged with their respective subthemes: (1) institutional stigma, insensitivity of healthcare providers, abuse of power by the police force, societal disapproval of the occupation, and unequal social treatment; (2) interpersonal stigma, language as a perpetrator of social stigma, family abandonment, conflict with work identity, and social isolation. A holistic approach is needed that addresses unmet needs and high vulnerability to deterioration of mental well-being due to social stigma against this group.

Rethinking the birth plan after the pandemic: A qualitative study of the view of Spanish midwives.

Background: The birth plan promotes women's autonomy allowing them to express their care preferences and to participate actively in decision-making. During the Covid-19 pandemic, concerns about infection placed limitations on women's decision-making and infringed upon some of their rights. The role of the birth plan, after the pandemic, needs to be reassessed to protect women's rights and ensure high-quality maternity care.

Sexual health beliefs and prevention of sexually transmitted infections among cisgender women sex workers in Colombia.

Introduction: The stigma and social discrimination against cisgender women sex workers lead many of them to live in conditions characterized by social inequality, marginalization, persecution, and limited opportunities for sexual health literacy. Consequently, they are often compelled to establish a framework of preventive beliefs with little scientific validity, which they use to identify, mitigate, or avoid sexual health risks arising from their interactions with clients. This study investigates the sexual health beliefs that influence self-care practices aimed at preventing sexually transmitted infections among cisgender women sex workers in Colombia.

The impact of severe perinatal events on maternity care providers: a scoping review.

Background: Severe events during the perinatal period can be experienced as traumatic by pregnant women, their partners or others who are closely involved. This includes maternity care providers who can be affected by being involved in or observing these events. This may have an impact on their personal well-being and professional practice, influencing quality of care.

A multidisciplinary evaluation, exploration, and advancement of the concept of a traumatic birth experience.

Background: Understanding a woman's traumatic birth experience benefits from an approach that considers perspectives from various fields of healthcare and social sciences.

Aim: To evaluate and explore the multidisciplinary perspectives surrounding a traumatic birth experience to form a theory and to capture its structure.

Methods: A multidisciplinary advanced principle-based concept analysis was conducted, including the following systematic steps: literature review, assessment of concept maturity, principle-based evaluation, concept exploration and advancement, and formulating a multidisciplinary concept theory.

The Effects of Accompaniment on Maternal Anxiety During Elective Cesarean Delivery: A Quasi-experimental Study.

Background: In Spain, allowing women to be accompanied by their partners during cesarean deliveries is a poorly consolidated practice. Going through this experience alone, not only deprives women from the opportunity of sharing the birth with their partners, but also, forces them to face, on their own, one of the most stressful experiences during pregnancy.

Objective: To analyze whether significant differences exist in levels of anxiety of women who receive an elective cesarean delivery, according to whether they are allowed to be accompanied by their partners.

The social conception of space of birth narrated by women with negative and traumatic birth experiences.

Background: Many women experience giving birth as a negative or even as a traumatic event. Birth space and its occupants are fundamentally interconnected with negative and traumatic experiences, highlighting the importance of the social space of birth.

Aim: To explore experiences of women who have had a negative or traumatic birth to identify the value, sense and meaning they assign to the social space of birth.

Obstetric Violence as an Infringement on Basic Bioethical Principles. Reflections Inspired by Focus Groups with Midwives.

Background: obstetric violence is still far too invisible; the word "violence" generates rejection and obstetric violence is complex to define and typify, as it is a subjective experience. It has been widely analyzed from legal, sociological, and clinical perspectives, but not equally so from the bioethical point of view. This article sets out to take a more in-depth look at the experiences of midwives in order to describe the ethical perspectives of obstetric violence.

The COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain: Experiences of Midwives on the Healthcare Frontline.

Background: Midwives look after women during pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium. In Spain, the first wave of COVID was particularly virulent. There are few studies about the experiences of midwives providing care during the COVID pandemic and very few have been undertaken in the countries of southern Europe such as Spain.

Birth cultures: A qualitative approach to home birthing in Chile.

Background: Birth cultures have been transforming in recent years mainly affecting birth care and its socio-political contexts. This situation has affected the feeling of well-being in women at the time of giving birth.

Aim: For this reason, our objective was to analyse the social meaning that women ascribe to home births in the Chilean context.

Methods and Success Factors of Induced Lactation: A Scoping Review.

Background: Induced lactation enables a woman who has not given birth to breastfeed a child. Lactation may be induced through both pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods, although the desired outcome cannot always be achieved.

Research Aims: The aims of this scoping review was to assess the different methods used to induce lactation, as well as the factors related to sucking the breast effectively and the production of human milk.

Postpartum perineal pain and dyspareunia related to each superficial perineal muscle injury: a cohort study.

Objective: To assess the association between superficial perineal muscle trauma and perineal pain and dyspareunia.

Materials And Methods: Prospective cohort study of 405 women with a spontaneous vaginal birth comparing an intact perineum and first-degree perineal trauma group (n = 205) with a second-degree perineal trauma and episiotomy group (n = 200). Perineal pain was measured at 2 days, 10 days, 7 weeks, 3 months and 6 months postpartum.

Exploring social and health care representations about home birth: An Integrative Literature Review.

Aims: Exploring social and health care representations of home birth by conducting an integrative review of the literature.

Design: Integrative Literature Review.

Data Sources: The search was based on the following keywords: "birth, home," "home birth," "childbirth, home.

Effectiveness and Safety of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Pregnant Women with Noncephalic Presentation: An Overview of Systematic Reviews.

Background: Breech presentation at the time of delivery is 3.8-4%. Fetuses that maintain a noncephalic presentation beyond 32 weeks will have a lower probability of spontaneous version before labor.

The experiential expertise of primary care midwives in the detection of gender violence during pregnancy. Qualitative study.

Aim: To use the reflections of primary care midwives to find out the barriers and facilitators for detecting IPV during pregnancy. The second aim is to determine proposals for measures to improve detection of IPV.

Method: Qualitative methodology with a interpretative phenomenological approach.

Understanding the Challenges of Induction of Lactation and Relactation for Non-Gestating Spanish Mothers.

Background: Induced lactation and relactation are the processes that enable breastfeeding in non-gestating mothers.

Research Aim: The aim of this study was to describe and interpret the challenges faced by mothers who undergo induced breastfeeding and relactation for adopted infants, infants born via surrogacy, and infants born to same-sex female partners.

Methods: A qualitative study was performed using in-depth interviews conducted with Spanish women ( = 9) who had decided to undergo induced lactation or relactation.

Intimate partner violence as a subject of study during the training of nurses and midwives in Catalonia (Spain): A qualitative study.

While nurses and midwives are in a unique position to identify and help victims of IPV, since they are often their first point of contact in the healthcare system, they need appropriate training. This study sought to examine the presence of IPV-related contents and the depth to which they are addressed in the bachelor's degree in Nursing and in the Midwifery specialisation programme. The study also explored lecturers' motivations for including IPV in their subjects.

Impact of maternity care policy in Catalonia: a retrospective cross-sectional study of service delivery in public and private hospitals.

Background: As a result of the growing number of interventions that are now performed in the context of maternity care, health authorities have begun to examine the possible repercussions for service provision and for maternal and neonatal health. In Spain the Strategy Paper on Normal Childbirth was published in 2008, and since then the authorities in Catalonia have sought to implement its recommendations. This paper reviews the current provision of maternity care in Catalonia.

Ethical conflict in critical care nursing: Correlation between exposure and types.

Background: Ethical conflicts in nursing have generally been studied in terms of temporal frequency and the degree of conflict. This study presents a new perspective for examining ethical conflict in terms of the degree of exposure to conflict and its typology.

Objectives: The aim was to examine the level of exposure to ethical conflict for professional nurses in critical care units and to analyze the relation between this level and the types of ethical conflict and moral states.

Use of alternative and complementary therapies in labor and delivery care: a cross-sectional study of midwives' training in Catalan hospitals accredited as centers for normal birth.

Background: The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and complementary and alternative therapies (CAT) during pregnancy is increasing. Scientific evidence for CAM and CAT in the field of obstetrics mainly covers pain relief in labor. Midwives are responsible for labor and delivery care: hence, their knowledge of CAM and CAT is important.

Satisfaction with pregnancy and birth services: the quality of maternity care services as experienced by women.

Objectives: To investigate the opinions of women regarding satisfaction with the quality of maternity care received, and to establish whether health-care technology increases satisfaction or interferes with the construction of personal satisfaction in the process of care.

Design And Setting: Information was gathered using focus groups. The area of study comprised the postnatal groups run as part of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Programme of the Catalan Health Authority, Spain.

[Neonatal screening for congenital metabolic pathologies. Ethical and social aspects. Implications for nurses and midwives].

The authors describe the diseases which are detectable by means of neonatal screening programs available in the different Spanish Autonomous Communities. They analyze some of the ethical and social implications which may occur and they emphasize what those programs mean for nursing professionals, fundamentally midwives and nurses who work in primary health care units or pediatric units.

[Osteoporosis and climacteric. Therapeutic actions].

Due to osteoporosis, bones are thinner and more fragile, which increases the number of fractures, especially in the hip. Due to the fact that this illness is a serious individual and social problem in today's world, it is therefore extremely important to diagnose it correctly and apply the appropriate treatment. This treatment, usually, is based on some general measures combined with other pharmacological ones, among which these are worthy to note: administering calcium and vitamin D and substitute hormone therapy.