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Dr Jenny Patterson's Outputs (23)

‘Sign and move on’: Interpreter awareness of legal and ethical informed consent in maternity care (2025)
Journal Article
Susam-Saraeva, Ş., & Patterson, J. (2025). ‘Sign and move on’: Interpreter awareness of legal and ethical informed consent in maternity care. Target, https://doi.org/10.1075/target.23053.sus

This article explores informed consent in maternity care in multilingual and multicultural contexts. Based on findings from a Royal Society of Edinburgh funded research project carried out in 2022 in Scotland, the article examines why consent is part... Read More about ‘Sign and move on’: Interpreter awareness of legal and ethical informed consent in maternity care.

Exploring parents’ experiences and holistic needs following late miscarriage: a narrative systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Giannatiempo, F., Hollins Martin, C., Patterson, J., & Welsh, N. (online). Exploring parents’ experiences and holistic needs following late miscarriage: a narrative systematic review. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2023.2297905

Up to 2% of all pregnancies result in pregnancy loss between 14 + 0 and 23 + 6 weeks’ gestation, which is defined as ‘late miscarriage’. Lack of consensus about definition of viability paired with existing multiple definitions of perinatal loss make... Read More about Exploring parents’ experiences and holistic needs following late miscarriage: a narrative systematic review.

A Thematic Analysis of Narratives About Birth Satisfaction and Health Awareness From Postnatal Women Who Have High and Low Trauma Scores on the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (2023)
Journal Article
Emmens, B., Hollins Martin, C. J., Patterson, J., & Martin, C. R. (2023). A Thematic Analysis of Narratives About Birth Satisfaction and Health Awareness From Postnatal Women Who Have High and Low Trauma Scores on the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist. International Journal of Childbirth, 13(4), 285-300. https://doi.org/10.1891/ijc-2022-0036

BACKGROUND: Around one-third of women experience childbirth trauma, with 3%–15% developing postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder (PP-PTSD).

AIM: Explore birth satisfaction and health perception across two groups of postnatal women with either h... Read More about A Thematic Analysis of Narratives About Birth Satisfaction and Health Awareness From Postnatal Women Who Have High and Low Trauma Scores on the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist.

Mindfulness and compassionate midwifery in childbirth trauma (2022)
Book Chapter
Patterson, J. (2022). Mindfulness and compassionate midwifery in childbirth trauma. In L. Davies, & S. Crowther (Eds.), Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere. Routledge

This chapter acknowledges the existence of birth trauma and the contribution that interactions between childbearing women and their care providers make to this. Authors explore the conflicting ideologies in midwifery that challenge midwives creating... Read More about Mindfulness and compassionate midwifery in childbirth trauma.

Dare to Dream (2021)
Book Chapter
Patterson, J. (2021). Dare to Dream. In Nurturing Maternity Staff. Pinter and Martin

Peer-delivery of a gender-specific smoking cessation intervention for women living in disadvantaged communities in Ireland We Can Quit2 (WCQ2) – a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial (2021)
Journal Article
Hayes, C. B., Patterson, J., Castello, S., Burke, E., O’Connell, N., Darker, C. D., Bauld, L., Vance, J., Ciblis, A., Dobbie, F., Loudon, K., Devane, D., & Dougall, N. (2022). Peer-delivery of a gender-specific smoking cessation intervention for women living in disadvantaged communities in Ireland We Can Quit2 (WCQ2) – a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 24(4), 564-573. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntab242

Introduction. The We Can Quit2 (WCQ2) pilot trial assessed the feasibility of ‘We Can Quit’ (WCQ), a community-based stop-smoking programme delivered by trained community facilitators, based on the socio-ecological framework and developed using a Com... Read More about Peer-delivery of a gender-specific smoking cessation intervention for women living in disadvantaged communities in Ireland We Can Quit2 (WCQ2) – a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial.

Policy, service, and training provision for women following a traumatic birth: an international knowledge mapping exercise (2021)
Journal Article
Thomson, G., Diop, M. Q., Stuijfzand, S., Horsch, A., Lalor, J. G., de Abreu, W., Avignon, V., Baranowska, B., Dikmen-Yildiz, P., El Hage, W., Fontein-Kuipers, Y., Horsch, A., Garthus-Niegel, S., Gonzalez Mesa, E., Hadjigeorgiou, E., Healy, M., Inci, F., İsbir, G. G., Jeličić, L., Karlsdóttir, S. I., …COST After birth Consortium. (2021). Policy, service, and training provision for women following a traumatic birth: an international knowledge mapping exercise. BMC Health Services Research, 21(1), Article 1206 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-07238-x

Background: High numbers of women experience a traumatic birth, which can lead to childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder (CB-PTSD) onset, and negative and pervasive impacts for women, infants, and families. Policies, suitable service provi... Read More about Policy, service, and training provision for women following a traumatic birth: an international knowledge mapping exercise.

ICD-11 Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) in parents with perinatal bereavement: Implications for treatment and care (2021)
Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J., Patterson, J., Paterson, C., Welsh, N., Dougall, N., Karatzias, T., & Williams, B. (2021). ICD-11 Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) in parents with perinatal bereavement: Implications for treatment and care. Midwifery, 96, Article 102947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2021.102947

The 11th revision of the WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) has identified Complex PTSD (CPTSD) as a new condition.
Aim: To explore whether the new diagnosis of CPTSD (ICD11) is relevant to women who have experienced perinatal be... Read More about ICD-11 Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) in parents with perinatal bereavement: Implications for treatment and care.

Compassion as a Powerful Intervention: How the interactions between women, midwives and maternity services influence women’s childbirth experiences and subsequent trauma (2020)
Journal Article
Patterson, J., & Ménage, D. (2020). Compassion as a Powerful Intervention: How the interactions between women, midwives and maternity services influence women’s childbirth experiences and subsequent trauma. Practising Midwife, 23(08), https://doi.org/10.55975/iaod9019

This article combines work from two separate PhD research studies by Dr Jenny Patterson and Dr Diane Ménage.
These studies explored, from different perspectives, how the nature of interactions between midwives and women may
contribute to, or preven... Read More about Compassion as a Powerful Intervention: How the interactions between women, midwives and maternity services influence women’s childbirth experiences and subsequent trauma.

A systematic integrative review of the literature on midwives and student midwives engaged in problematic substance use (2020)
Journal Article
Pezaro, S., Patterson, J., Moncrieff, G., & Ghai, I. (2020). A systematic integrative review of the literature on midwives and student midwives engaged in problematic substance use. Midwifery, 89, Article 102785. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2020.102785

Objective
The objective of this systematic integrative review was to review the literature in relation to problematic substance use (PSU) in midwifery populations. Associated aims were to aggregate existing knowledge about midwives and student midwi... Read More about A systematic integrative review of the literature on midwives and student midwives engaged in problematic substance use.

Shattered Expectations: The experience of care provider interaction from the perspectives of women with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Childbirth, and midwives. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. (2019)
Thesis
Patterson, J. Shattered Expectations: The experience of care provider interaction from the perspectives of women with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Childbirth, and midwives. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2086503

Background: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Post Childbirth (PTSD-PC) has important implications for mothers, children, families, and healthcare services. Interpersonal factors are the strongest predictor for the development of PTSD-PC, with the woman... Read More about Shattered Expectations: The experience of care provider interaction from the perspectives of women with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Childbirth, and midwives. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis..

Disempowered midwives and traumatised women: exploring the parallel processes of care provider interaction that contribute to women developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) post childbirth (2019)
Journal Article
Patterson, J., Hollins-Martin, C. J., & Karatzias, T. (2019). Disempowered midwives and traumatised women: exploring the parallel processes of care provider interaction that contribute to women developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) post childbirth. Midwifery, 76, 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2019.05.010

Background: Around 4% of women develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Childbirth (PTSD-PC). During childbirth a woman’s perception of her care provider’s interpersonal verbal and nonverbal relationship behaviours, termed ‘Quality of Provider Int... Read More about Disempowered midwives and traumatised women: exploring the parallel processes of care provider interaction that contribute to women developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) post childbirth.

PTSD post-childbirth: a systematic review of women’s and midwives’ subjective experiences of care provider interaction (2018)
Journal Article
Patterson, J., Hollins Martin, C., & Karatzias, T. (2019). PTSD post-childbirth: a systematic review of women’s and midwives’ subjective experiences of care provider interaction. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 37(1), 56-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2018.1504285

Objective: To review primary research from within the literature regarding PTSD Post-Childbirth (PTSD-PC), that focussed on Quality of Provider Interaction (QPI) from either the perspective of women who have developed PTSD-PC, or midwives.
Backgroun... Read More about PTSD post-childbirth: a systematic review of women’s and midwives’ subjective experiences of care provider interaction.

Healing Ourselves as Midwives (2018)
Book Chapter
Patterson, J. (2018). Healing Ourselves as Midwives. In N. Edwards, R. Mander, & J. Murphy-Lawless (Eds.), Untangling the Maternity Crisis. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315277059-13

This chapter presents a range of self-care practices, rooted in longstanding healing traditions and for which there is a growing body of evidence of their effectiveness. Capacitar International offers a range of practical self-care practices, which a... Read More about Healing Ourselves as Midwives.

The BPG survey: The results (2018)
Book Chapter
Mander, R., & Patterson, J. (2018). The BPG survey: The results. In N. Edwards, R. Mander, & J. Murphy-Lawless (Eds.), Untangling the Maternity Crisis. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315277059-3

The implications for the individual members of staff have been investigated by an online survey. This chapter focuses on some of the survey's findings. It addresses crucial aspects of the data, such as staff shortages, midwives' fears, and the role o... Read More about The BPG survey: The results.

The BPG Survey: Fear (2018)
Book Chapter
Mander, R., McHugh, N., Murphy-Lawless, J., Patterson, J., & Edwards, N. (2018). The BPG Survey: Fear. In N. Edwards, R. Mander, & J. Murphy-Lawless (Eds.), Untangling the Maternity Crisis (31-38). Routledge

Mander, R and the Birth Project Group
In: Edwards, N.; Mander, R. & Murphy-Lawless, J. (Eds.)

Post traumatic stress disorder post childbirth versus postnatal depression: a guide for midwives (2017)
Journal Article
Bromley, P., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Patterson, J. (2017). Post traumatic stress disorder post childbirth versus postnatal depression: a guide for midwives. British Journal of Midwifery, 25(8), 484-490. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2017.25.8.484

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Post Childbirth (PTSD-PC) is a powerful pathophysiological reaction that occurs in response to experiencing a traumatic birth and affects between1-6% of women. Regardless of its trigger, PTSD-PC causes significant impai... Read More about Post traumatic stress disorder post childbirth versus postnatal depression: a guide for midwives.