Australian, Irish, and Swedish women's comfort levels when breastfeeding in public.

Background: Despite a flux of global initiatives to increase and sustain breastfeeding rates, challenges persist. The decision to commence and sustain breastfeeding is influenced by multiple, complex factors. Feelings of social embarrassment, shame, fear of judgement, and lack of confidence when breastfeeding in public, compound women's decisions to breastfeed and may result in formula feeding or early cessation of breastfeeding.

Women's perceptions of factors needed to encourage a culture of public breastfeeding: a cross-sectional study in Sweden, Ireland and Australia.

Background: Breastfeeding in the public sphere is known to be experienced as a problem for many women. It has been shown to arouse negative feelings among the public, depending on the attitude of those in the immediate surroundings. This contributes to the fact that many women hesitate to breastfeed in public and prepare themselves for potential adverse comments.

Assessing fetal movements in pregnancy: A qualitative evidence synthesis of women's views, perspectives and experiences.

Background: Raising awareness of the importance of fetal movements (FMs) and advising women on the appropriate action to take if they experience reduced FMs, is important for minimising or avoiding adverse perinatal outcomes. To gain insight and understanding of women's perspectives of assessing FMs in pregnancy, we conducted a qualitative evidence synthesis.

Methods: A qualitative evidence synthesis using thematic synthesis was conducted.

Supporting diversity in person-centred care: The role of healthcare chaplains.

Aim: To explore healthcare chaplains' experience of providing spiritual support to individuals and families from minority religious and non-religious faiths and to identify key elements of the role.

Background: Currently, there is limited research uncovering the essential elements of healthcare chaplaincy, specifically with reference to religious and/or spiritual diversity, and as interprofessional collaborators with nurses and midwives in healthcare.

Research Design And Participants: Using phenomenology, we interviewed eight healthcare chaplains from a variety of healthcare settings in the Republic of Ireland.

Helpful and challenging aspects of breastfeeding in public for women living in Australia, Ireland and Sweden: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Breastfeeding in public continues to be contentious with qualitative evidence confirming that women face many challenges. It is therefore important to gain understanding of not only the challenges but also what women perceive is helpful to breastfeed in public.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with women living in Australia, Ireland or Sweden currently breastfeeding or having breastfed within the previous 2 years.

End of life in acute hospital setting-A systematic review of families' experience of spiritual care.

Aims And Objectives: To systematically review qualitative studies exploring families' experiences of spiritual care at the end of life in acute hospital settings.

Background: Although there is a widespread belief that the consideration of spiritual and religious needs is outdated in the context of secularism, from a practical perspective patients and families appear to benefit from spiritual support at the end of life.

Methods: Six key databases, CINAHL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Global Health Library, Web of Science and Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA), were searched, and three reviewers independently extracted the data and coded them into themes and subthemes.

Motivators and challenges to research recruitment - A qualitative study with midwives.

Objective: To explore midwives' experiences of recruiting participants to research studies conducted by other researchers.

Design: An inductive qualitative study.

Methods: Individual face-to-face or telephone interviews using a semi-structured interview guide.

Space for human connection in antenatal education: Uncovering women's hopes using Participatory Action Research.

Objective: the aim of this research was to initiate active consultation with women and antenatal educators in the development and delivery of antenatal education that was mutually relevant.

Design: a Participatory Action Research approach influenced by feminist concerns was used to guide the research. Data were analysed by the researcher and participants using a Voice Centred Relational Method of Analysis.

Using action research to develop midwives' skills to support women with perinatal mental health needs.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of the research was to identify and develop midwives' skills to support women with mental health needs during pregnancy, using an action research approach.

Background: A review of perinatal mental health services in a large Dublin maternity unit revealed a high number of referred women who 'did not attend' the perinatal mental health service with few guidelines in place to support midwives in identifying and referring women for specialist help.

Design: Action research using cooperative inquiry involved a mental health nurse specialist and a team of midwives, who were drawn to each other in mutual concern about an area of practice.

Spiritual aspects of living with infertility: A synthesis of qualitative studies.

Aims And Objectives: To identify the spiritual aspects of patients experiencing infertility and seek a deeper and broader meaning of the involuntary childlessness experience.

Background: Infertility can be the cause for a spiritual crisis among some couples. Those who endure this involuntary childlessness condition frequently experience contradictory feelings and needs.

An evaluation of the appropriateness and effectiveness of structured reflection for midwifery students in Ireland.

Midwifery students undertaking the undergraduate midwifery education programme in Ireland participate in facilitated reflective sessions that aim to develop their skills of reflecting on and in clinical practice. This paper presents a qualitative evaluation of the appropriateness and effectiveness of the facilitated reflection sessions for pre and post-registration midwifery students in two large Dublin maternity teaching hospitals. The aim was to evaluate structured reflective practice sessions which sought to assist midwifery students to become competent reflective practitioners.