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Teaching family planning to nurse and midwife students: A constructivist grounded theory study
Pauline Uwajeneza1, Yolanda Babenko-Mould2, Marilyn Evans2
1Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5B9, Canada; Ruli Higher Institute of Health, District Road 51, Ruli Sector, PO Box 1285, Kigali, Rwanda.
Aim:
This study aimed to describe nurse/midwife educators' understanding and enactment of teaching family planning methods with nursing/midwifery students in educational programs in Rwanda. More precisely, the aim of this study was to generate a substantive theory that explains how nurse/midwife educators introduce family planning methods into their teaching practice to facilitate learning among nurse/midwife students in Rwanda.
Background:
High maternal mortality remains a global health issue. In 2017, approximately 295,000 women worldwide died from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth and 94% of these maternal deaths occurred in low-income countries. Evidence shows that family planning improves maternal health outcomes and significantly contributes to reducing maternal mortality. Low family planning uptake is partly attributed to inadequate education of healthcare providers to provide family planning services.
Design:
This study followed the constructivist grounded theory methodology articulated by Kathy Charmaz (2006; 2014).
Methods:
The primary data source was individual semi-structured interviews with 25 nurse/midwife educators recruited from all the schools/faculties/departments of nursing and midwifery in Rwanda, augmented with written documents related to family planning education in nursing/midwifery preservice programs.
Results:
The substantive Theory that emerged from the data analysis indicated that the process of teaching family planning in preservice nursing/midwifery education among nurse/midwife educators has three phases: preparing, facilitating and evaluating. Factors that had an impact on the process and actions that nurse/midwife educators undertook to address the challenges related to those factors were identified. The main influential factors that had a significant impact on nurse/midwife educators' ability to teach family planning are contextual factors and personal factors related to the nurse/midwife educators. The contextual factors included the availability of resources, student-teacher ratio, number of students in clinical placements and the time allocated to the family planning unit. The personal factors related to the nurse/midwife educators included knowledge, skills, confidence, attitude, beliefs and moral values toward family planning methods.
Conclusion:
These study findings generated valuable knowledge that can guide the improvement of teaching family planning in preservice nursing/midwifery programs in Rwanda and other limited-resource countries and contexts. With the insights provided by this study, future research should investigate strategies to overcome highlighted barriers, increase nurse/midwife educators' expertise in teaching family planning and enhance the preparedness of nurse/midwife students on some family planning methods identified in this study.
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