NDLI: “… I carry their stories home …”: experiences of nurses and midwives caring for perinatal adolescent mothers in primary health care settings in Rwanda

Content Provider	Springer Nature : BioMed Central
Author	Nkurunziza, Aimable Smye, Victoria L. Jackson, Kimberley T. Wathen, C. Nadine Cechetto, David F. Tryphonopoulos, Panagiota Gishoma, Darius Muhayimana, Alice
Abstract	Introduction Adolescent mothers require trauma- and violence-informed care during the perinatal period due to trauma histories and ongoing violence as a result of pregnancy. Nurses and midwives play a critical role in caring for adolescent mothers in primary healthcare settings in Rwanda in the perinatal period. Purpose To explore the experiences of nurses and midwives working with adolescent mothers in selected primary healthcare settings in Rwanda to inform the delivery of trauma- and violence- informed care. Methods This study utilized an interpretive description qualitative approach and was conducted in eight primary healthcare settings in Rwanda. Twelve nurses and midwives working in perinatal services and four heads of health centers participated in in-depth individual interviews. Data were analyzed thematically. Results The analysis revealed four main themes and 11 (sub-themes): (a) relational practice (being creative and flexible, “lending them our ears”); (b) individual challenges of providing care to adolescent mothers (lack of knowledge to provide care related to gender-based violence, and gendered experience); (c) factors contributing to workarounds (inflexible guidelines, lack of protocol and procedures, lack of nurses’ and midwives’ in service training, and the physical structure of the perinatal environment); and (d) vicarious trauma (living the feelings, “I carry their stories home,” and hypervigilance in parenting). Conclusion Nurses and midwives find caring for adolescent mothers challenging due to their unique needs. These needs require them to be creative, adaptable, and attentive listeners to better understand their challenges. These practitioners face difficulties such as insufficient specific knowledge related to, for example, gender-based violence, inflexible guidelines, and a lack of protocols and training. Additionally, in the perinatal environment attention to the needs of practitioners in those settings is often lacking, and many nurses and midwives report experiencing vicarious trauma. Consequently, there is a pressing need for guidelines and protocols specifically tailored for the care of adolescent mothers. Ongoing trauma- and violence- informed care training and professional education should be provided to enhance the ability of nurses and midwives to care for adolescent mothers and prevent re-traumatization and mitigate vicarious trauma effectively.
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Page Count	17
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ISSN	14726955
DOI	10.1186/s12912-024-02247-7
Journal	BMC Nursing
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	23
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2024-09-02
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Nursing Nursing Management Nursing Research Adolescent mother Nurses Midwives Perinatal Primary care settings Trauma- and violence- informed care Structural violence
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nursing
Journal Impact Factor	3.1/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	3.5/2023

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