The Challenges of Providing Postpartum Education in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Narratives of Nurse-Midwives and Obstetricians

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ID4630775
AutoresLilian Teddy Mselle (0000-0002-6754-4091, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Megan Aston (0000-0002-1856-1653, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, autor correspondente), Thecla W Kohi (0000-0002-2859-9348, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Columba Mbekenga (0000-0002-3322-4057, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Danielle Macdonald (0000-0002-9235-7108, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Maureen White (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Sheri Price (0000-0002-5535-6624, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Gail Tomblin Murphy (0000-0002-7305-7003, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Shawna O’hearn (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Keisha Jefferies (0000-0002-4860-073X, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Ano2017
Volume27
Fascículo12
Páginas1792-1803
Data de publicação2017-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732317717695
PMID28705071
OpenAlexW2739407948
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas34

Postpartum 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

Dar es salaam · Family medicine · Health care · Maternity care · Narrative · Obstetrics · Postpartum period · Pregnancy · Qualitative research · Tanzania · Child and Adolescent Health · Global Maternal and Child Health · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions · Medicine · Nursing