The Challenges of Providing Postpartum Education in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Narratives of Nurse-Midwives and Obstetricians

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dc.contributor.authorMbekenga, Columba K.
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-25T11:23:55Z
dc.date.available2022-03-25T11:23:55Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractPostpartum education can save lives of mothers and babies in developing countries, and the World Health Organization recommends all mothers receive three postpartum consultations. More information is needed to better understand how postpartum education is delivered and ultimately improves postpartum health outcomes. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how postpartum care was delivered in three postnatal hospital clinics in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Semistructured interviews with 10 nurse-midwives and three obstetricians were conducted. Feminist poststructuralism guided the research process. Postpartum education was seen to be an urgent matter; there was a lack of supportive resources and infrastructure in the hospital clinics, and nurse-midwives and obstetricians had to negotiate conflicting health and traditional discourses using various strategies. Nurse-midwives and obstetricians are well positioned to deliver life-saving postpartum education; however, improvements are required including increased number of nurse-midwives and obstetricians.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMselle, L.T., Aston, M., Kohi, T.W., Mbekenga, C., Macdonald, D., White, M., Price, S., Tomblin Murphy, G., O’Hearn, S. and Jefferies, K., 2017. The challenges of providing postpartum education in Dar ES Salaam, Tanzania: narratives of nurse-midwives and obstetricians. Qualitative Health Research, 27(12), pp.1792-1803.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1177/1049732317717695
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/928
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherQualitative Health Researchen_US
dc.subjectAgencyen_US
dc.subjectMidwiferyen_US
dc.subjectCaregiversen_US
dc.titleThe Challenges of Providing Postpartum Education in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Narratives of Nurse-Midwives and Obstetriciansen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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