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A retrospective cohort design was used to compare data from women/pregnant people who elected for a vaginal birth after previous caesarean section to those opting for elective repeat caesarean...
A hospital-based unmatched case-control study design was used. A case-control design has many benefits, including that less time is required to conduct the study than is needed for a cohort study;...
There is debate surrounding the definition of mental health. To explore this, the concept of ‘health’ must first be considered. The World Health Organization (WHO, 1948) defined a healthy individual...
There is good evidence for simulated learning in respect to students' learning gain, satisfaction and overall self-confidence (Marion-Martins and Pinho, 2020; Mulyadi et al, 2020; Chua et al, 2021;...
Victoria Roscow, age 30 years old, is a Manchester-based marketing manager and a woman living with HIV.
‘When I stand at her grave now looking at her name, it is as though nothing occurred between the early form-filling and endless medical reports and her premature death. Hers was a life in paper. I...
At the British Journal of Midwifery (BJM), we are committed to providing our readers with up-to-date research, clinical reviews and professional articles that allow our audience to stay on top of...
A retrospective cohort observation study was carried out at a UK university in the south of England. The sample included all students who entered the BSc (Hons) 3-year midwifery programme between 2014...
A randomised controlled trial using a pre-post-test time series was conducted between June and December 2020 in four working areas of the Banyumas District Public Health Centre, Central Java Province,...
The study used a descriptive qualitative design with an interpretative approach to examine pregnant women's beliefs related to daily intake of iron supplements. This design allowed the investigators...
Meta-analysis is a quantitative, formal, epidemiological study design used to systematically assess the results of previous research to derive conclusions about that body of research (Haidich, 2010)....
The Caucasian (male) body as the norm has long been noted by Black feminists (Hull et al, 1982; Crenshaw, 1988; 1991; Gishen and Lokugamage, 2019), and even the human genome project is replicating...
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