Communication between healthcare professionals and parturients during the childbirth experience: a mixed-methods study.
Luciana Braz de Oliveira Paes, Natália Rejane Salim, Beatriz Rosana Gonçalves de Oliveira Toso and 5 others
PMID 40802442WHAT IT FOUND
In a Brazilian maternity hospital, women reported birth professionals imposing decisions, not introducing themselves, and leaving birth plans unknown.
Discharge instructions were understood but still one-way. This describes care experiences, not tested interventions.
Key findings
01The birth plan was not delivered to any woman in the quantitative phase, reported as 100%.
02Professionals did not introduce themselves in 71.43% of labor and 69.06% of delivery or cesarean section cases.
03Interviews described imposed communication, with little room for dialogue.
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How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for RNs
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What it does not show
It was done in one teaching maternity hospital chosen for convenience, so results may not apply to other settings. Many women answered questions while still in the hospital under the care of the team they were rating. The instrument had no scoring system, so quantitative and qualitative data could not be compared numerically. The qualitative phase interviewed 44 women, and only those with internet access could take part. The study describes experiences and cannot show that better communication caused better birth outcomes.
Declared interests
This study was financed in part by CAPES, Finance Code 001. No other conflict-of-interest statement is given in the supplied text.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the study as showing that nurses caused poor communication or that communication training improves birth outcomes. It describes women's experiences with the maternity team and does not test an intervention.