Kontakt 2019, 21(3):298-305 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2019.018

Coping strategies in midwife care for women with labour painNursing - Review article

Eva Šalanská1,*, Markéta Moravcová2
1 Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Faculty of Health Studies, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
2 University of Pardubice, Faculty of Health Studies, Department of Midwifery and Health and Social Work, Pardubice, the Czech Republic

Objective: Literary review; analysis of literary sources dealing with midwives who use coping strategies in care of women with labour pain.

Design: A review study.

Methodology: Qualitative study; system search in the electronic databases Pubmed, Web of Science, midwives magazine, CINAHL, Cochrane, according to established criteria and the following keywords: coping, birth, labour pain, strategy. The overview was made within the period between September 2017 and June 2018. Selected studies were reviewed from the years 2000-2014. The obtained studies were organized according to Prism recommendations.

Results: A comparison of studies from the UK, Ireland, America and Australia. The study showed the positive impact of a midwife who uses a coping strategy while engaging a woman in the labour process and allowing her to decide on its course. This relationship leads to a better understanding and perception of birth pain by women as something positive and needed in childbirth; it is co-operation with a midwife and managing the birth itself without risks and complications.

Conclusions: The idea of modern nursing in midwifery is comprehensive, ongoing care for a woman by midwives during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period taken as a relationship and supported by a woman's trust. This leads to the elimination of the disruption of natural processes of labour and delivery, the reduction of possible risks and complications, and to a positive pregnancy, childbirth and following contact between women and their newborns.

Keywords: Care; Coping; Delivery; Obstetrics; Strategy

Received: January 2, 2019; Accepted: April 8, 2019; Prepublished online: June 19, 2019; Published: September 18, 2019  Show citation

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Šalanská E, Moravcová M. Coping strategies in midwife care for women with labour pain. Kontakt. 2019;21(3):298-305. doi: 10.32725/kont.2019.018.
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