Background The birth plan was introduced in the 1980s to facilitate communication between
maternity care providers and women and increase agency for childbearing women in the …

Objectives In order to improve the degree of shared decision making (SDM) experienced by
patients, it is necessary to gain insight into the explanations for the differences in these …

Background Informed consent for medical interventions is ethically and legally required; an
important aspect of quality and safety in healthcare; and essential to person-centred care …

Background Many women experience giving birth as a negative or even as a traumatic
event. Birth space and its occupants are fundamentally interconnected with negative and …

Background: Healthcare systems advocate for quality care and humanized relations in
routine birth care, and have therefore created the Birth Plan, a document available to …

The first written guide for birth plans was introduced in 1980 as a means for birthing people
to document their choices in the child birthing experience. The birth plan offers an …

Objective To investigate the association between women's socioeconomic status and overall
childbirth experience and to explore how women reporting an overall negative birth …

Problem There is minimal evidence regarding the role or impact of birth plans from the
perspective of women experiencing scheduled caesarean birth. Background Quality …

Problem For health care providers to ensure appropriate decision-making in clinical settings
during childbirth, facilitators and barriers must be identified. Background Women who …

METHODS Qualitative descriptive exploratory design of 12 focus groups with 64 participants
representing different language-cultural groups served by the Baby Buddy Cyprus app. A …