Amount, Source, and Quality of Support as Predictors of Women's Birth Evaluations

DiscussionSupport in childbirth is a complex concept with multiple dimensions that matter for women's birth evaluations. Support from nursing staff, doctors, and doulas is important for enabling positive evaluations while support from partners is more complexly related to women's evaluations. Research on support for laboring women should more extensively address the division of labor between different sources of support.

Source: Birth - March 17, 2016 Category: OBGYN Authors: Richard M. Simon, Katherine M. Johnson, Jessica Liddell Tags: Original Article Source Type: research