NDLI: Midwives’ strategies for coping with barriers to providing quality maternal and neonatal care: a Glaserian grounded theory study

Content Provider	Springer Nature : BioMed Central
Author	Ismaila, Yakubu Bayes, Sara Geraghty, Sadie
Abstract	Background Midwives face direct and indirect barriers in their workplaces that have negative consequences on their ability to provide quality care to women and neonates, however, they still carry on with their duties. This study aimed at investigating the coping strategies that Ghanaian midwives adopt to be able to complete their work. Methods Glaserian Grounded theory was used in this study. Data were collected through non-participant observations and semi-structured interviews. The study participants included 29 midwives who worked in labour/birthing environments and a pharmacist, a social worker, a national Health Insurance Scheme manager and a health services manager. Findings The midwives’ motivation due to their strong desire to save the lives of women and neonates and their strong affection for the midwifery profession was identified to help them cope with the barriers that they faced in their workplaces. The midwives’ motivation was found to spur actions such as improvising, taking control of the birthing process and the birthing environment and the maintenance of social and professional networks to help them to complete their duties. Conclusion Ghanaian midwives face myriad barriers in their workplaces; however, they are able to adopt coping strategies that enable them to complete their duties. The provision of care resources for maternity services in the country will reduce the barriers that the midwives face and improve the quality of maternal and neonatal care. In the short term however, pre and post midwifery educational programmes should focus on developing resilience in the midwifery workforce to help midwives cope more effectively with the challenges that they face in their workplaces.
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Page Count	11
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ISSN	14726963
DOI	10.1186/s12913-021-07049-0
Journal	BMC Health Services Research
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	21
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2021-11-03
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Public Health Health Administration Health Informatics Nursing Research Midwives Maternal health Neonatal health Quality care Psychological resilience Coping Ghana Low and middle-income countries Developing countries
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health Policy

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