Yesterday HSC Ph.D. student Sheetal Sharma presented her key research findings under the title ‘Getting women to care: mixed–methods evaluation of maternity care intervention in rural Nepal’ at the 30th congress of the ICM (International Confederation of Midwives) in Prague. Sheetal’s Ph.D. evaluates the effectiveness of a health promotion intervention aiming antenatal care attendance in rural Nepal. Her evaluation suggests that practice should be socio-culturally appropriate and inclusive not only of women but also their families.
This afternoon three HSC posters were displayed as part of a special session on Midwifery in South Asia. All three posters featured aspects of maternity care research conducted in the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal and Perinatal Health in Nepal.
Poster 1: Staff perspectives of barriers to women accessing birthing services in Nepal: A qualitative study
Milne, L, Hundley, V, van Teijlingen, E, Ireland, J, Simkhada, P,
Poster 2: Pregnant & Dirty?
Sharma, S., van Teijlingen, E., Hundley, V. Simkhada, P., Angell, C.
Poster 3: Getting women to care in Nepal: A Difference in Difference analysis of a health promotion intervention
Sharma, S. Sicuri, E., Belizan, JM., van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P., Stephens J., Hundley, V., Angell, C.
Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen
CMMPH
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