Publications by authors named "Maria Emilia Martinez-Roche"

Objective: The conduction of episiotomy is a questioned practice given the strong scientific evidence on its adverse effects. The study objectives were to know the episiotomy rate and its adaptation to the recommendations of the Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare and assess the associated factors.

Methods: It has been made a Observational, descriptive and transversal quantitative study, it was carried out in the university clinical hospital arrixaca.

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Background: The rates of breastfeeding worldwide are slowly improving since 1996. Europe is still trailing behind the global breastfeeding incidence and prevalence rates. Thus, breastfeeding promotion, protection, prolongation and support have become an important challenge as breastfeeding sharply decreases in the first six months of life.

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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between resilience, academic burnout and psychological health in a sample of nursing students.

Method/design: A descriptive and cross-sectional design was applied, with questionnaires as tools.

Participants: The convenience sample consisted of 113 nursing students in their final academic year, who voluntarily participated in the study.

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Objectives: get to know, analyze and describe the current situation of the Delivery and Birth Plans in our context, comparing the delivery and birth process between women who presented a Delivery and Birth Plan and those who did not.

Method: quantitative and cross-sectional, observational, descriptive and comparative cohort study, carried out over two years. All women who gave birth during the study period were selected, including 9303 women in the study.

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Background: the hypothesis of this study is that there are not enough validated questionnaires that measure the impact of networks to support breastfeeding for the Spanish speaking population.

Objective: For this reason, we ask as a general objective of this study, to develop and validate (in terms of content and construct) a quantitative instrument of measure.

Method: We evaluated the content validity, subjecting the survey to a breastfeeding expert's opinion in the Region of Murcia.

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Objective: to analyze the influence of gender and age on the quality of the professional lives of health care professionals at a university hospital.

Method: a total of 546 professionals completed a general questionnaire that measured sociodemographic variables and evaluated job satisfaction using a scale adopted from the NTP 394 Job Satisfaction scale and translated into Spanish.

Results: overall, 77.

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