Support provided by midwives to women during labour in a public hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa: a participant observation study
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Midwives' experiences of managing women in labour in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.
INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of midwives managing women during labour at a tertiary care hospital in the Limpopo Province. An exploratory, descriptive, contextual and inductive design was applied to this qualitative research study. Purposive sampling was used to select midwives who were working in the childbirth unit and had managed women ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1471-2393
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-018-1860-8