'Naming and faming' maternity care providers: A mixed-methods study.

Autor: Kuipers Y; Department of Health and Social Care, School of Midwifery, AP University of Applied Sciences, Noorderplaats 2, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium; School of Health and Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University, Sighthill Campus, EH11 4BN Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Electronic address: y.kuipers@napier.ac.uk., De Bock V; Department of Health and Social Care, School of Midwifery, AP University of Applied Sciences, Noorderplaats 2, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium., Van de Craen N; Department of Health and Social Care, School of Midwifery, AP University of Applied Sciences, Noorderplaats 2, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium., Bosmans V; Department of Health and Social Care, School of Midwifery, AP University of Applied Sciences, Noorderplaats 2, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Midwifery [Midwifery] 2024 Mar; Vol. 130, pp. 103912. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 24.
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2023.103912
Abstrakt: Background: Positive benchmarking can serve as a catalyst for maternity care improvement.
Aim: To retrospectively benchmark Flemish maternity care providers' qualities, based on women's positive care experiences, and to explore which attributes of the different care providers contribute to these experiences.
Methods: A sequential, two-phased mixed-methods study benchmarking the qualities of the community midwife, the hospital midwife, and the obstetrician. An online questionnaire was used to collect the data among pregnant and postpartum women, who rated their care experiences with the various care providers using the Net Promoter Score. Non-parametric and post hoc tests established the differences between types of clinicians and between antenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum Net Promoter Score mean scores. Content analysis was used to construct a final pool of keywords representing attributes of care professionals, accumulated from the promoters' free text responses. Ranks were assigned to each keyword based on its frequency.
Findings: A total of 2385 Net Promoter Scale scores and 1856 free-text responses of 1587 responders were included. The community midwife received the overall highest NPS scores (p < .001). The promoters (n = 1015) assigned community midwives the highest NPS scores (9.67), followed by obstetricians (9.57) and hospital-based midwives (9.51). The distinct benchmarking attributes of community midwives were availability (p < .001), supportiveness (p = .04) and personalised care (p < .001). Being honest (p < .001), empathic (p < .001) and inexhaustible (p = .04) benchmarked hospital midwives. Calmness (p < .001), a no-nonsense approach (p < .001), being humane (p = .01) and comforting (p = .02) benchmarked obstetricians.
Discussion/conclusion: The findings indicate that all care providers are highly valued, but community midwives are ranked the highest. The distinct differences between the care professionals can serve as exemplary performance for professional development and shape the profiles of maternity care professionals.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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