Midwifery
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Pregnancy-related Pelvic Girdle Pain (PPGP) is a very common complaint. Although many women recover after a birth, about a third continue to have symptoms three months postpartum and 8.5% of women still have persistent symptoms two years afterwards. Knowledge of prognostic factors may help understand the course of PPGP and inform management. ⋯ Potentially modifiable factors during pregnancy seem to impact the prognosis of PPGP postpartum.
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Pregnancy and childbirth are associated with new needs for mothers, especially an eagerness for information. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the Happy-Mums.be website meets the expectations and needs of its future users. ⋯ Happy-Mums.be meets the needs and expectations of parents and professionals in terms of both content and design. More specifically, the quality of the information found on Happy-Mums.be was judged to be significantly better than the information found on other websites.
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To analyse midwifery teachers' pedagogic approaches to remediation for student midwives with poor clinical reasoning skills. ⋯ Midwifery teachers should be trained to recognise their students' clinical reasoning issues to identify them early, using all types of learning activities. Remedial strategies should be implemented promptly, adapted to each student and foster the transfer of learning.