Emotion work in midwifery: a review of current knowledge

Hunter, Billie

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01772.x

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“…Midwives working in maternity and labor wards have been shown to experience high levels of burnout and emotional stress [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. Burnout from working has been used previously to assess workers' negative mental condition [6].…”

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Relationship of High Work Engagement among Staff Midwives with Their Immediate Superiors’ Burnout on Maternity and Labor Wards in Japan

Emiko¹,

Inoue²,

Ohashi³

2017

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Introduction: Mental conditions for work among workers are related to clinical performance and influenced by colleagues within the same workplace. The aim of study was to examine the work engagement and burnout of staff midwives working on maternity and labor wards and to determine the factors related to high work engagement of staff midwives, including their immediate superiors' work engagement and burnout. Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was employed in Japan. Questionnaires were distributed to 452 midwives/nurses working on maternity and labor wards of 20 hospitals and responses from 96 staff midwives and 17 of their immediate superiors were analyzed. Work engagement and burnout (exhaustion, cynicism, and professional efficacy) were assessed by the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey, respectively. To examine the association of work engagement among staff midwives with their ages, marital status and work engagement and burnout of their superiors, logistic regression analysis was conducted. Results: Immediate superiors showed significantly higher level of work engagement than staff midwives, while there was no difference in the burnout. High work engagement of staff midwives was significantly correlated with the professional efficacy (AOR 1.93, 95% CI 1.12 -3.33) and cynicism (AOR 2.01, 95% CI, 1.04 -3.90) of their immediate superiors. There was no correlation of work engagement between them. Conclusions: High work engagement of staff midwives was correlated to high professional efficacy and cynicism of their immediate superiors, suggesting that there might be crossover effects on mental conditions for work between staff midwives and their immediate superiors.

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Relationship of High Work Engagement among Staff Midwives with Their Immediate Superiors’ Burnout on Maternity and Labor Wards in Japan

Emiko¹,

Inoue²,

Ohashi³

2017

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“…They have shown that controlling one's emotions is central to caring jobs such as nursing and midwifery. A competent practitioner is able to carry out the work without becoming too emotionally involved with the patients, to uphold a professional approach and to support patients (see Bolton 2000;Fineman 2005;Hunter 2001;James 1992;Smith 1998). In her study of gynecology nurses, Sharon C. Bolton sees their work as "maintaining the professional face" which means that they learn to "mask" their own feelings in order to be able to emotionally support the patients (2000: 584).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Bolton 2000, Fineman 2005, Hunter 2001, Sturdy 2003, Thoits 1989. They have shown that controlling one's emotions is central to caring jobs such as nursing and midwifery.…”

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“…Birth is an interactive process between biology, psychology, politics, society, medicine, and technology (Jansson 2008: 14). Childbirths are also emotionally intense situations, not only for the parents-to-be but also for those who work in delivery care (Hunter 2001, Jonvallen 2010). In addition, pregnancies and childbirths are sociocultural situations; there are norms about the normal birth.…”

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Negotiating the Normal Birth : Norms and Emotions in Midwifery Education

Gleisner¹

2013

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“…Caseload midwifery requires relationship skills that potentially increase the emotional and psychological aspects of the midwife's work (Hunter, 2001) but enable the midwife to optimise the interconnected biological, psychological, emotional and social processes that occur during labour and birth (Sakala and Newburn, 2014;Fahy et al, 2008). As in other qualitative studies, knowing their midwife resulted in caseload women feeling calmer and less anxious in the lead up to labour (Huber and Sandall, 2009) as well as feeling more able to manage fear of pain in labour (Leap et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%