Can Pregnancy Experience Predict Birth Experience, Postpartum Depression and Anxiety? A Prospective Descriptive Study.

Aim: A positive pregnancy experience can be a good start for healthy motherhood. This study aimed to investigate Iranian women's pregnancy experience and how self-reported hassles and uplifts influence birth experience, postpartum depression and anxiety, and the association between childbirth experience and postpartum mental health.

Design: A prospective descriptive study.

Using Legitimation Code Theory to Underpin the Development of Undergraduate Nursing Students' Breastfeeding Knowledge: A Qualitative Study.

Aim: To explore how undergraduate nursing students develop knowledge during a breastfeeding module.

Design: A qualitative study using a single case-study approach.

Methods: This study was conducted in Australia over 2 years during the period between July 2021 and December 2022.

Publicly available Australian hospital data on infant feeding: A review and comparative analysis of outcomes.

Background: Breastfeeding is the optimal method of providing infant nutrition. The Baby Friendly Health Initiative (BFHI) is a global strategy to promote breastfeeding. This study aimed to explore infant feeding data in Australian hospitals and compare outcomes between BFHI and non-BFHI accredited hospitals, and between public and private hospitals.

Evaluating a woman-centred web-based breastfeeding educational intervention in Saudi Arabia: A before-and-after quasi-experimental study.

Background: Although digital educational resources are used worldwide to educate new parents, the impact of digital resources tailored specifically to women's needs on breastfeeding practices is not well explored.

Aim: The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of using a women-centred Web-Based Breastfeeding Educational Resource (WEBBER) in increasing the rate of exclusive breastfeeding at one month after birth.

Methods: A quasi-experimental study with before and after intervention was conducted in one metropolitan hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Financial hardship and Australian midwifery students: A scoping review and thematic analysis.

Problem: Despite the pressing need to grow the Australian midwifery workforce, the rising cost of living is making midwifery education programs unaffordable for many. Understanding of the financial hardships faced by Australian midwifery students is currently limited.

Background: Attrition from midwifery programs is high and rising.

Pre-implementation context and implementation approach for a nursing and midwifery clinician researcher career pathway: A qualitative study.

Aim: To describe the pre-implementation context and implementation approach, for a clinician researcher career pathway.

Background: Clinician researchers across all health disciplines are emerging to radically influence practice change and improve patient outcomes. Yet, to date, there are limited clinician researcher career pathways embedded in clinical practice for nurses and midwives.

Legitimation Code Theory's role in shaping nursing education: An integrative review.

Background: In response to the increasing diversity in nursing education, the Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) offers a transformative approach to understanding and addressing the unique learning needs of students from various backgrounds.

Objectives: To identify how Legitimation Code Theory has informed the design of professional education in biological and health sciences.

Design: An integrative review was conducted using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) and guided by the five-step process by Whittemore and Knafl.

Writing for publication: Argument and evidence.

The rules for writing a research report are well defined but novice writers need more clarification on writing scholarly scientific papers for publication. The purpose of this paper is to enable novice writers to confidently apply the skills of scientific writing to the development of a scholarly paper for publication. We highlight the importance of having a clearly defined question or clarity in focus before moving on to consider the components of a scholarly paper including, the question, thesis, introduction, body, discussion, conclusion and finally, an abstract.

Using the principles of practice development to address challenges in recruitment and data collection when face-to-face methods are unavailable.

Background: Researchers conducting studies involving pregnant women often find recruitment challenging. The COVID-19 pandemic added further complexity to studies requiring face-to-face participation.

Aim: To demonstrate how to maintain the principles of practice development (PD) when a study must switch from face-to-face to remote methods of collecting data.

Applying Legitimation Code Theory to teach breastfeeding in nurse education: A case study.

Aim: To use Legitimation Code Theory as a framework to inform the design of nursing education and gain insights into student perspectives of this design.

Background: Internationally, the World Health Organization's breastfeeding recommendations are not being met. One contributing factor is that healthcare providers including registered nurses lack the knowledge to support breastfeeding women on an ongoing basis and rely on their personal experiences to inform the care they provide.

Woman-centered care and associated factors among midwives working in urban health centers and public and private hospitals in Tabriz, Iran: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Woman-centered care (WCC) is the cornerstone of the midwifery profession. However, no study has been conducted on WCC provided by Iranian midwives and its associated factors. Thus, this study aimed to determine WCC and factors associated with midwives' WCC for midwives working in urban health centers and public and private hospitals in Tabriz, Iran.

Iranian mother's perspectives about aspects and determinants of disrespect and abuse during labor and delivery: a qualitative study.

Respectful maternity care (RMC) is a crucial strategy in improving postpartum experiences of mothers. This study aimed to explain women's perception of determining aspects and determinants of disrespect and abuse (D&A) during childbirth. This study was carried out from October 2019 to February 2020 in Tabriz-Iran.

Persian version of the support and control in birth questionnaire among Iranian women.

Background: Lack of perceived support and control during labor and childbirth is known as an important predictor of post-traumatic stress disorder following childbirth. However, there is no standard scale to measure perceived support and control for Iranian women. This study determined the validity and reliability of the support and control in birth questionnaire for Iranian women.

Cultural and linguistic appropriateness of a web-based breastfeeding educational resource for Saudi women: Consensus development conference approach.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the cultural and linguistic appropriateness of the content, images and layout of the web-based breastfeeding educational resource for Saudi women using a consensus development approach.

Background: Although the World Health Organization highly recommends exclusive breastfeeding, there is a decline in breastfeeding rates in Saudi Arabia, especially during hospital stay. The combining of health professional support with e-technology tools has been proposed as a method to increase exclusive breastfeeding.

Evaluation of woman-centred care status by Iranian midwives and providing strategies to improve women-centred care: A sequential explanatory mixed method study protocol.

Aim: The present study aimed to evaluate the status of WCC provided by Iranian midwives.

Design: A sequential explanatory mixed method study protocol.

Methods: The present study was conducted in three phases: quantitative, qualitative and mixed.

Psychometric Properties of the Disrespect and Abuse Questionnaire in Iranian Parturient Women.

Background: Disrespect and abuse during childbirth is regarded as harassment of women and a violation of their rights. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the disrespect and abuse questionnaire in Iranian parturient women.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 265 postpartum women in both private and public hospitals in Tabriz, Iran.

Adolescent pregnant women's perception of health practices: A qualitative study.

Aim: To explore adolescent pregnant women's perception of health practices.

Design: A qualitative study.

Method: Fifteen pregnant women in Tehran (capital of Iran) were selected based on purposive sampling to participate in semi-structured, in-depth interviews.

The Marri Gudjaga project: a study protocol for a randomised control trial using Aboriginal peer support workers to promote breastfeeding of Aboriginal babies.

Background: Breastfeeding protects against a range of conditions in the infant, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), diarrhoea, respiratory infections and middle ear infections [1, 2]. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends exclusive breastfeeding until six months of age, with continued breastfeeding recommended for at least two years and other complementary nutritious foods [3]. The 2017-18 National Health Survey (NHS) and 2018-19 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) reported that the proportion of breastfeeding in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants (0-2 years) were less than half that of non-Indigenous infants (21.

Saudi Women's Breastfeeding Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Introduction: Despite the health benefits of breastfeeding, Saudi women do not exclusively breastfeed their babies. The purpose of this article was to synthesize Saudi women's breastfeeding knowledge, attitude, and practices and identify the factors that women reported for their breastfeeding cessation.

Methodology: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials and cross-sectional studies was undertaken.

Iranian women's perception on the determinants of birth experience: a qualitative study.

Background: The prevalence of cesarean birth in Iran is very high. Having a negative childbirth experience is one of the reasons that primiparous women provide to prefer caesarean birth over a vaginal birth. This study is aimed to understand women's perspective on what determines a positive or negative birth experience for them.

What knowledge of breastfeeding do nursing students hold and what are the factors influencing this knowledge: An integrative literature review.

Aim: The aim of this review was to explore the preregistration nursing students' breastfeeding knowledge and the sources they used to develop that knowledge as a health care professional.

Background: New registered nurses do not feel prepared to support breastfeeding women in neonatal and paediatric settings.

Results: Preregistration nursing students have sufficient knowledge of the physiology of lactation but insufficient knowledge on supporting women to decide on the practical aspects of breastfeeding and its challenges for healthy or sick babies.

Sexual activity and cancer: A systematic review of prevalence, predictors and information needs among female Arab cancer survivors.

Introduction: The objective of this review is to synthesise and present the best available evidence on the prevalence, predictors and information needs about sexual health among female Arab cancer survivors.

Methods: The databases searched included MEDLINE, Embase and CINAHL from inception of the database until March 2020. The review was undertaken according to the JBI guidelines.

Design and content validation of an instrument measuring user perception of the persuasive design principles in a breastfeeding mHealth app: A modified Delphi study.

Background: Persuasive design principles are increasingly employed in mHealth apps for motivating users and promoting healthy behaviours among individuals. However, how the persuasive design principles are perceived by the mHealth app users remains unclear.

Aim: To develop and validate the content validity of an instrument designed to measure the user's perceptions of the persuasive design principles assimilated in a breastfeeding mHealth app.

Designing a respectful maternity care guideline: a multiphase study.

Background: There is no comprehensive guideline for respectful maternity care (RMC) promotion in Iran. This study aimed to design a RMC guideline based on a multiphase study.

Methods: In this multiphase mixed-methods study, recommendations were made for RMC promotion through the data obtained from Phase I (i.