Toward a contextualized understanding of well-being in the midwifery profession: An integrative review

Autor: Tago L Mharapara, Janine H Clemons, James Greenslade-Yeats, Tanya Ewertowska, Nimbus Awhina Staniland, Katherine Ravenswood
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Professions and Organization. 9:348-363
ISSN: 2051-8811
2051-8803
DOI: 10.1093/jpo/joac017
Popis: Our integrative review synthesizes and evaluates two decades of empirical research on well-being in the midwifery profession to reveal (1) how researchers have studied midwives’ well-being; (2) key findings of research on midwives’ well-being; (3) underlying assumptions of this research; and (4) limitations of this research. We find that research on midwives’ well-being is disproportionately focused on individual midwives, who are assumed to be largely responsible for their own well-being, and that well-being in the midwifery profession is generally equated with the absence of mental health problems such as burnout, anxiety, and stress. Researchers have largely taken a narrow and instrumental approach to study midwives’ well-being, focusing on work-related antecedents and consequences, and overlooking the influence of nonwork factors embedded in the broader socioeconomic and cultural environment. Drawing on more comprehensive and contextualized well-being frameworks, we propose a research model that (1) expands the well-being construct as it applies to midwives and (2) situates midwives’ well-being in broader social, economic, political, and cultural contexts. Although developed in the midwifery context, our proposed research model can be applied to a host of professions.
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