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Evidence Based Midwifery

Evidence Based Midwifery is the RCM’s research journal, which promotes the dissemination, implementation and evaluation of midwifery evidence locally, nationally and internationally.

The journal publishes papers that report findings from qualitative or quantitative research studies, philosophical analyses and systematic reviews.

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LATEST ISSUE: View links to papers in Volume 11, Issue 1 (March 2013)

March 2013 (Volume 11, Issue 1)

Editorial: Pregnancy: The 'z generation': digital mothers and their infants
The author would like to thank Maria Herron for inspiring her to theorise about the future of social media technologies in health care.
Recognising stressors and using restorative supervision to support a healthier maternity workforce: a retrospective, cross-secti
This paper explores the nature of midwifery staff stress around loss and its predictive factors and suggests a potential solution to enabling midwives to manage the emotional demands of the job.
A survey of midwives' attitudes towards illicit drug use in pregnancy
Examining the relationships between midwives' attitudes, experience and formal education in caring for women who abused drugs in substance misuse.
Normal birth and its meaning: a discussion paper
Using Foucault's (1976) concept of power and knowledge, this paper aims to explore how growth of authoritative knowledge and dominant discourse associated with medicine in particular obstetrics in the 20th century has transformed society's view concerning 'normal birth'.
Issues for consideration by researchers conducting sensitive research with women who have endured domestic violence during pregn
The aim of this paper is to provide a description of the process of conducting sensitive research using a framework for good practice applied to an actual research study.
Midwives' experiences of home birth transfer
The aim of this paper is to explore the midwives' experience of home birth transfer from a planned home birth to an obstetric unit (OU).
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