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Midwife/client relationship: midwives' perspectives.

H McCrea, V Crute

    Midwifery
    |December 1, 1991
    PubMed
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    Midwives face dilemmas managing their role, autonomy, emotional involvement, and integrity. Effectively navigating these factors creates a special, therapeutic midwife-client relationship, crucial for quality care.

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    Area of Science:

    • Maternal Health
    • Midwifery Practice
    • Qualitative Research

    Background:

    • The midwife-client relationship is fundamental to effective maternal care.
    • Understanding factors influencing this relationship is key to enhancing care quality.
    • Previous research has not fully explored midwives' perspectives on relationship development.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explore midwives' perceptions of factors affecting therapeutic relationships with clients.
    • To identify challenges and dilemmas encountered by midwives in relationship building.
    • To understand how managing these challenges impacts the quality of the midwife-client relationship.

    Main Methods:

    • Qualitative research approach utilizing in-depth interviews.
    • Dilemma analysis applied to interview data to explore complex situations.

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  • Exploration of midwives' experiences of both positive and negative client relationships.

    • Main Results:

    • Four key issues emerged: role nature/value, authority/autonomy, emotional involvement, and personal integrity.
    • Successful management of these issues led to 'special' and therapeutic relationships.
    • Mismanagement resulted in dilemmas that hindered meaningful midwife-client connections.

    Conclusions:

    • Effective management of role, autonomy, emotional involvement, and integrity is crucial for therapeutic midwife-client relationships.
    • Educational preparation is needed to equip midwives with skills to manage these everyday practice issues.
    • Enhancing midwives' ability to manage these factors can improve the therapeutic quality of the midwife-client relationship.