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  • Assessing emotional aspects of midwives' intrapartum care: Development of the emotional availability and responsiveness in intrapartum care scale

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    Leinweber, Julia
    Creedy, Debra K
    Rowe, Heather
    Gamble, Jenny
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    Creedy, Debra K.
    Gamble, Jenny A.
    Year published
    2019
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    Background/Problem: Emotional care underpins women's positive experiences during labour andbirth but is under-researched. Applying an attachment theory approach may inform the measurement of emotional aspects of maternity care. Objective: To develop and validate a self - report measure for midwives to assess their emotionally attuned intrapartum care. Methods: A staged approach to tool development was followed. Item generation was informed by a critical review of the literature and expert review. Following a pilot test, the draft scale was psychometrically assessed. Principal component analysis with varimax rotation was used ...
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    Background/Problem: Emotional care underpins women's positive experiences during labour andbirth but is under-researched. Applying an attachment theory approach may inform the measurement of emotional aspects of maternity care. Objective: To develop and validate a self - report measure for midwives to assess their emotionally attuned intrapartum care. Methods: A staged approach to tool development was followed. Item generation was informed by a critical review of the literature and expert review. Following a pilot test, the draft scale was psychometrically assessed. Principal component analysis with varimax rotation was used to establish construct validity. Cronbach's alpha determined internal reliability. Concurrent validity was tested with the ‘empathic concern’ and the ‘personal distress’ subscales on the Interpersonal Reactivity Index. The study was conducted with midwives (n = 705) who are members of the Australian College of Midwives. Findings: The Cronbach's alpha for the scale was 0.88. Principal component analysis revealed a one- factor solution. Significant but low correlations with Interpersonal Reactivity Index subscales of ‘empathic concern’ (rho =.256, p <.001) and ‘personal distress’ (rho = −.249, p<.001) confirmed concurrent validity. Conclusion: The Emotional Availability and Responsiveness in Intrapartum Care Scale appears to be a valid and reliable measure of emotional aspects of midwives’ caregiving. An Attachment Theory approach validates women's perspectives and elucidates our understanding of the importance of emotional labour support.
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    Journal Title
    Midwifery
    Volume
    74
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2019.03.019
    Copyright Statement
    © 2019 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Nursing
    Health services and systems
    Public health
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/384476
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