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Midwives’ experiences of doula support for immigrant women in Sweden—A qualitative study
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Objective To describe and analyse midwives' experiences of doula support for immigrant women in Sweden.Design Qualitative study, analysed using content analysis. Data were collected via interviews.Setting Interviews were conducted at the midwives' workplaces. One midwife was interviewed at a cafe.Participants Ten midwives, who participated voluntarily and worked in maternity health care in western Sweden.Findings The interview data generated three main categories. (1) 'A doula is a facilitator for the midwife' has two subcategories, 'In relation to the midwife' and 'In comparison with an interpreter', (2) 'Confident women giving support,' has two subcategories, 'Personal characteristics and attitudes' and 'Good support,' (3) 'Doulas cover shortcomings' has two subcategories, 'In relation to maternity care' and 'In relation to ethnicity'.Key conclusion and implications for practice The findings of this study show that midwives experience that doulas are a facilitator for them. Doulas provide support by enhancing the degree of peace and security and improving communication with the women in childbirth. Doulas provide increased opportunities for transcultural care. They may increase childbearing women's confidence and satisfaction, help meet the diverse needs of childbearing women and improve care quality.
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“the use of community-based doulas, mostly other mothers from the same communities, who acted as “cultural bridges” and provided information on different cultural birthing customs [47]”
From Transnationalism and care of migrant families during pregnancy, postpartum and early-childhood: an integrative review (2020) · cites this paper as [47]
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“Language was also addressed in care using different approaches. This was mostly done by accommodating migrants through the use of interpreters, inter-bi-cultural/lingual health workers or liaisons and translated materials [41, 46, 47, 49, 53–55, 58, 61, 65, 73, 76–78, 84, 86, 90–92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 103–108, 110].”
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“Across the literature a need for making care more ‘culturally safe’ was identified and deemed essential, including having a more diverse and trained (on cultural competency) healthcare workforce, greater use of linguistic/cultural brokers, and more openness to different ways of doing and/or simply acknowledgement, humility/respect and kindness towards difference [21, 47, 50, 51, 53, 56, 57, 59, 62”
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“In some instances, healthcare professionals reported feeling left-out when providing care across languages [47, 58].”
From Transnationalism and care of migrant families during pregnancy, postpartum and early-childhood: an integrative review (2020) · cites this paper as [47]
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- Authors
- Akhavan, S., & Lundgren, I.
- Affiliations
- University of Skövde (SE)
- University of Gothenburg (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Akhavan, Sharareh
- Venue
- Midwifery
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-02
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 80-85
- ISSN
- 0266-6138 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2170809738
- Cited by
- 81
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 3.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Midwifery (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Obstetrics and Gynecology › Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Keywords
- doula support, midwives' experiences, immigrant women, obstetric care, transcultural care, childbirth support, interpreter role, ethnicity, women's self-confidence, quality of care
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Anecdotes as Topic, Female, Humans, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Labor, Obstetric, Midwifery, Mothers, Nurse-Patient Relations, Pregnancy, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sweden, Nursing Methodology Research, Nurse's Role, Emigrants and Immigrants, Young Adult, Doulas
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