Graduating midwifery students’ preferred model of practice and first job decisions: A qualitative study

Kuliukas, Lesley; Bayes, Sara; Geraghty, Sadie; Bradfield, Zoe; Davison, Clare

doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2020.07.005

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“…At present, there are no other studies that have compared student midwives with and without children regarding their stress perception and coping behaviors. Yet, contrary to our results, previous studies indicated that family responsibilities were a stressor for student midwives [ 14 , 18 ] and was considered a challenge in terms of midwifery continuity of care as a future employment model [ 35 – 37 ]. Also a qualitative study with Australian nurses and midwives identified difficulties in coordinating child care and work in terms of work scheduling, access to leave and casual work, as well as with negative impacts on private relationships and finances [ 68 ].…”

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“…Students’ intention to stay in the study program was also influenced by observing that practicing midwives faced challenges in maintaining a work-life balance (caring for clients and own family) [ 34 ]. Furthermore, Australian studies on preferences of midwifery continuity of care as future employment model found that challenges related to family responsibilities and work-life balance were perceived among student midwives [ 35 – 37 ]. Although no studies to date exist on the link between work-privacy conflict and coping behaviors of student midwives, a literature overview on medical students’ well-being indicated that students with family demands may experience role conflict and guilt, and dealing with conflicting demands may be associated with maladaptive coping behaviors such as eating disorders or substance abuse [ 38 ].…”

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Stress perception, coping behaviors and work-privacy conflict of student midwives in times of COVID-19 pandemic: the “Healthy MidStudents” study in Germany

Efimov,

Agricola,

Nienhaus

et al. 2024

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background Student midwives deliver care for women under challenging job demands, which may affect their mental health– thus creating a high need for health promotion. Given the lack of research addressing this topic, the aim of this study is to examine the links between stress perception, coping behaviors, work-privacy conflict, and perception of COVID-19 pandemic impact on studies of student midwives in northern Germany. Methods Data were collected using a cross-sectional online-survey at nine midwifery study sites in northern Germany from October 2022 to January 2023. 342 student midwives (response rate: 61.3%) were surveyed on stress perception, coping behaviors, work-privacy conflict, and perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their studies. Descriptive, linear regression and moderation analyses were run to test explorative assumptions. Results Results revealed that higher levels of perceived stress were reported by 13.4% of student midwives. Social support (M = 13.76, SD = 2.19) and active stress coping (M = 10.72, SD = 2.01) were identified as most prevalent coping behaviors in the present sample. It was found that work-privacy conflict was positively associated with stress perception (ß = 0.53, p =.001) and maladaptive coping behaviors (alcohol and cigarette consumption: ß = 0.14, p =.015), and negatively associated with adaptive coping behaviors (positive thinking: ß = − 0.25, p =.001, social support: ß = − 0.23, p =.001). Students with children reported significantly lower levels of social support than students without children. 55.6% of student midwives perceived a negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their studies (mostly on lectures, seminars, and contact with fellow students). Conclusions Key findings highlighted moderate stress levels among student midwives during theoretical study stage. Based on current research, prevalence of high stress levels among student midwives remains unclear. Given the overall heterogeneous, limited research on student midwives’ stress perception, coping behaviors, work-privacy conflict and perceptions of COVID-19 pandemic impact on studies, implications for research are suggested, e.g. longitudinal studies at different time points and settings and interventional studies. Findings provide a starting point for implementation of workplace health promotion in theoretical and practical stages of midwifery science study programs, e.g. training courses on stress prevention and adaptive coping, and for improvement of working conditions.

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Stress perception, coping behaviors and work-privacy conflict of student midwives in times of COVID-19 pandemic: the “Healthy MidStudents” study in Germany

Efimov,

Agricola,

Nienhaus

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BMC Health Serv Res

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“…Yet, even some of them are prefer not to continue their education. Midwifery academy becomes one of alternative options for higher education in the health sector [3], for example in our case study, the XYZ Midwifery Academy (later abbreviated as XYZ MA) in Malang.…”

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Designing Decision Support System for Midwifery Students’ Tuition Fees Problem

Wulandari

2024

IJIES

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Education is an essential need and an important element to create a broad-minded youth. While in Indonesia, the rate of tuition fees is still imbalanced with the economic rate. Thus, many people decided to discontinue their higher education. Decision making plays an important role to manage organizations, including in educational institutions, as one of the main duties in managerial is making decisions. This study took place in a midwifery academy in Malang. In response to this situation, the academy has a policy to alleviate students by paying the tuition fees in instalments. However, many students are in arrears as the result of this policy. Thus, management needs to take some consideration before making a decision toward the problem. Those considerations require high accuracy and time consuming to process information that support decision making. Currently, the decision-making process in this academy is still semi-automated, in which some processes are still done manually, which affect longer time to make decisions, and the accuracy of calculations could not be fully guaranteed. According to this condition, the purpose of this research is to design a decision support system that enables us to process information for decision making and to offer decision alternatives for decision makers. This research employs Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with a decision table as a method to create decision alternatives. The prototype was developed using Visual Studio C#.Net. The result shows that by using the proposed prototype of DSS, decision makers can reduce 5-10 minutes of decision making process compared to the old semi-automated system which still required manual calculation and data collection and analysis before making the decision. A complete data and more detailed parameters for decision criteria are required to implement the proposed prototype of DSS in the institution with more objective consideration in the decision making process as the future work.

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