Job satisfaction of maternity care providers in the Netherlands: Does working in or with a birth centre influence job satisfaction?

Introduction: In the Netherlands birth centres have recently become an alternative option as places where women with uncomplicated pregnancies can give birth. This article focusses on the job satisfaction of three groups of maternity care providers (community midwives, clinical care providers and maternity care assistants) working in or with a birth centre compared to those working only in a hospital or at home.

Methods: In 2015, an existing questionnaire was adapted and distributed to maternity care providers and 4073 responses were received.

Group based prenatal care in a low-and high risk population in the Netherlands: a study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial.

Background: CenteringPregnancy (CP) is a multifaceted group based care-model integrated in routine prenatal care, combining health assessment, education, and support. CP has shown some positive results on perinatal outcomes. However, the effects are less obvious when limited to the results of randomized controlled trials: as there are few trials and there is a variation in reported outcomes.

Calculating Preference Weights for the Labor and Delivery Index: A Discrete Choice Experiment on Women's Birth Experiences.

Objective: The aim of this study was to calculate preference weights for the Labor and Delivery Index (LADY-X) to make it suitable as a utility measure for perinatal care studies.

Methods: In an online discrete choice experiment, 18 pairs of hypothetical scenarios were presented to respondents, from which they had to choose a preferred option. The scenarios describe the birth experience in terms of the seven LADY-X attributes.

The Dutch Birth Centre Study: study design of a programmatic evaluation of the effect of birth centre care in the Netherlands.

Background: Birth centres are regarded as settings where women with uncomplicated pregnancies can give birth, assisted by a midwife and a maternity care assistant. In case of (threatening) complications referral to a maternity unit of a hospital is necessary. In the last decade up to 20 different birth centres have been instituted in the Netherlands.

Good reliability and validity for a new utility instrument measuring the birth experience, the Labor and Delivery Index.

Objectives: To validate the Labor and Delivery Index (LADY-X), a new delivery-specific utility measure.

Study Design And Setting: In a test-retest design, women were surveyed online, 6 to 8 weeks postpartum and again 1 to 2 weeks later. For reliability testing, we assessed the standard error of measurement (S.

Implementation of client versus care-provider strategies to improve external cephalic version rates: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To determine the effectiveness of a client or care-provider strategy to improve the implementation of external cephalic version.

Design: Cluster randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Twenty-five clusters; hospitals and their referring midwifery practices randomly selected in the Netherlands.

Implementation of external cephalic version in the Netherlands: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: External cephalic version (ECV) reduces the rate of elective cesarean sections as a result of breech presentation. Several studies have shown that not all eligible women undergo an ECV attempt. The aim of this study was to evaluate the implementation of ECV in the Netherlands and to explain variation in implementation rates with hospital characteristics and individual factors.

A comprehensive representation of the birth-experience: identification and prioritization of birth-specific domains based on a mixed-method design.

Background: In obstetrics, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness studies often present several specific outcomes with likely contradicting results and may not reflect what is important for women. A birth-specific outcome measure that combines the core domains into one utility score would solve this problem. The aim of this study was to investigate which domains are most relevant for women's overall experience of labor and birth and should be included in such a measure.

Facilitators and barriers to external cephalic version for breech presentation at term among health care providers in the Netherlands: a quantitative analysis.

Objective: guidelines recommend that external cephalic version (ECV) should be offered to all women with a fetus in breech presentation at term. However, only 50-60% of the women receive an ECV attempt. We explored the determinants (barriers and facilitators) affecting the uptake of the guidelines among gynaecologists and midwives in the Netherlands.

Implementation of a cost-effective strategy to prevent neonatal early-onset group B haemolytic streptococcus disease in the Netherlands.

Background: Early-onset Group B haemolytic streptococcus infection (EOGBS) is an important cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality in the first week of life. Primary prevention of EOGBS is possible with intra-partum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP.) Different prevention strategies are used internationally based on identifying pregnant women at risk, either by screening for GBS colonisation and/or by identifying risk factors for EOGBS in pregnancy or labour.

The lower prevalence of female genital mutilation in the Netherlands: a nationwide study in Dutch midwifery practices.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) in women giving birth in 2008 in the Netherlands.

Method: A retrospective questionnaire study was conducted.The study covered all 513 midwifery practices in the Netherlands.

Implementation of the external cephalic version in breech delivery. Dutch national implementation study of external cephalic version.

Background: Breech presentation occurs in 3 to 4% of all term pregnancies. External cephalic version (ECV) is proven effective to prevent vaginal breech deliveries and therefore it is recommended by clinical guidelines of the Royal Dutch Organisation for Midwives (KNOV) and the Dutch Society for Obstetrics and Gynaecology (NVOG). Implementation of ECV does not exceed 50 to 60% and probably less.

Are there inequalities in choice of birthing position? Sociodemographic and labour factors associated with the supine position during the second stage of labour.

Objective: to establish which factors are associated with birthing positions throughout the second stage of labour and at the time of birth.

Design: retrospective cohort study.

Setting: primary care midwifery practices in the Netherlands.