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Psychological health of pregnant and postpartum women before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Kuipers, Y. J., Bleijenbergh, R., Van den Branden, L., van Gils, Y., Rimaux, S., Brosens, C., Claerbout, A., & Mestdagh, E. (2022). Psychological health of pregnant and postpartum women before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. PLOS ONE, 17(4), Article e0267042. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267042

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to influence psychological health of pregnant and postpartum women.

Methods: We conducted a non-concurrent cross-sectional study among 1145 women living in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, 541 pregnan... Read More about Psychological health of pregnant and postpartum women before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Developing a woman‐centered, inclusive definition of traumatic childbirth experiences: A discussion paper (2022)
Journal Article
Leinweber, J., Fontein‐Kuipers, Y., Thomson, G., Karlsdottir, S. I., Nilsson, C., Ekström‐Bergström, A., Olza, I., Hadjigeorgiou, E., & Stramrood, C. (2022). Developing a woman‐centered, inclusive definition of traumatic childbirth experiences: A discussion paper. Birth, 49(4), 687-696. https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12634

Introduction: Many women experience giving birth as traumatic. Although women's subjective experiences of trauma are considered the most important, currently there is no clear inclusive definition of a traumatic birth to help guide practice, educatio... Read More about Developing a woman‐centered, inclusive definition of traumatic childbirth experiences: A discussion paper.

Predictors associated with low-risk women's pre-labour intention for intrapartum pain relief: a cross-sectional study (2022)
Journal Article
Kuipers, Y. J., & van Beeck, E. (2022). Predictors associated with low-risk women's pre-labour intention for intrapartum pain relief: a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 4, Article 100070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2022.100070

Background: Pregnant women have preferences about how they intend to manage labour pain. Unmet intentions can result in negative emotions and/or birth experiences.

Objective: To examine the antenatal level of intention for intrapartum pain relie... Read More about Predictors associated with low-risk women's pre-labour intention for intrapartum pain relief: a cross-sectional study.

Remotely Delivered Interventions to Support Women With Symptoms of Anxiety in Pregnancy: Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Evans, K., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Cox, S., Kuipers, Y., & Spiby, H. (2022). Remotely Delivered Interventions to Support Women With Symptoms of Anxiety in Pregnancy: Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(2), Article e28093. https://doi.org/10.2196/28093

Background: Symptoms of anxiety are common in pregnancy, with severe symptoms associated with negative outcomes for women and babies. Low-level psychological therapy is recommended for women with mild to moderate anxiety, with the aim of preventing a... Read More about Remotely Delivered Interventions to Support Women With Symptoms of Anxiety in Pregnancy: Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

PATH PerinatAl menTal Health (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kuipers, Y. (2022, February). PATH PerinatAl menTal Health. Paper presented at CARE 4 International Scientific Nursing and Midwifery Conference, Ghent, Belgium [Online]

Validity and accuracy of the Whooley questions and Fear of Childbirth Scale to identify antenatal reduced emotional wellbeing (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kuipers, Y. (2022, February). Validity and accuracy of the Whooley questions and Fear of Childbirth Scale to identify antenatal reduced emotional wellbeing. Paper presented at CARE 4 International Scientific Nursing and Midwifery Conference, Ghent, Belgium [Online]

Background: Because of the considerable prevalences of reduced antenatal emotional wellbeing including depression, general anxiety and childbirth-related anxiety, and appreciating the time constraints that midwives perceive to routinely assess women’... Read More about Validity and accuracy of the Whooley questions and Fear of Childbirth Scale to identify antenatal reduced emotional wellbeing.

Validation of the postpartum bonding questionnaire: A cross-sectional study among Flemish mothers (2022)
Journal Article
Bleijenbergh, R., Van den Branden, L., van Gils, Y., Van de Craen, N., Van Leugenhaege, L., & Kuipers, Y. J. (2022). Validation of the postpartum bonding questionnaire: A cross-sectional study among Flemish mothers. Midwifery, 107, Article 103280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2022.103280

Objective: Becoming a mother is a process of transition that is subject to constant change and may last for over one year postpartum. Bonding is an important component of this transition to motherhood and can be measured with the Postpartum Bonding Q... Read More about Validation of the postpartum bonding questionnaire: A cross-sectional study among Flemish mothers.

Validity and accuracy of the Whooley questions and Fear of Childbirth Scale to identify antenatal reduced emotional wellbeing (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kuipers, Y. (2021, September). Validity and accuracy of the Whooley questions and Fear of Childbirth Scale to identify antenatal reduced emotional wellbeing. Paper presented at 41st Annual SRIP Conference, Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology, Online

Background: Because of the considerable prevalences of reduced antenatal emotional wellbeing including depression, general anxiety and childbirth-related anxiety, and appreciating the time constraints that midwives perceive to routinely assess women’... Read More about Validity and accuracy of the Whooley questions and Fear of Childbirth Scale to identify antenatal reduced emotional wellbeing.

The impact of motherhood on the course of women's psychological wellbeing (2021)
Journal Article
Kuipers, Y. J., Beeck, E. V., Cijsouw, A., & van Gils, Y. (2021). The impact of motherhood on the course of women's psychological wellbeing. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 6, 100216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100216

Background
Having children or being childless is associated with differences in women's psychological wellbeing during the reproductive age period.

Methods
An individually matched case-control cohort study, measuring psychological wellbeing with... Read More about The impact of motherhood on the course of women's psychological wellbeing.

Recognising and treating complicated fissuring perianal Crohn’s Disease: a South-East Scotland cohort study (2021)
Journal Article
Burgess, C. J., Clark, C., Khedim, C.-A., Armstrong, K., Wilson, D. . C., & Henderson, P. (2022). Recognising and treating complicated fissuring perianal Crohn’s Disease: a South-East Scotland cohort study. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 74(1), 68-71. https://doi.org/10.1097/MPG.0000000000003285

Fissuring perianal Crohn's Disease (CD) is not recognised as a perianal phenotype in Montreal/Paris inflammatory bowel disease classifications however can occasionally present as complicated disease with severe perianal pain driving increasingly inte... Read More about Recognising and treating complicated fissuring perianal Crohn’s Disease: a South-East Scotland cohort study.

'Powers, passages and passengers' : the construction and performance of student midwives' professional identities (2021)
Thesis
McLuckie, C. 'Powers, passages and passengers' : the construction and performance of student midwives' professional identities. (Thesis). University of Stirling. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2793206

This thesis details my study of the discourses within which student midwives construct and perform their professional identities. The title employs a metaphor commonly used in midwifery and obstetric texts to articulate the powers, passages and passe... Read More about 'Powers, passages and passengers' : the construction and performance of student midwives' professional identities.

Bleeding Free (2021)
Digital Artefact
MacLeod, K., Morgan, L., & Cochrane, R. (2021). Bleeding Free. [Digital video]

A documentary film about period poverty and menstrual health. The film focuses on the importance of free access to period products and how this improves the life chances for women and girls, especially in relation to education but also for gender equ... Read More about Bleeding Free.

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.

A Pre–Post Study Design: Evaluating the Effect of an Intervention to Prevent and Reduce Maternal Distress Among a Pregnant Population (2020)
Book
Kuipers, Y. (2020). A Pre–Post Study Design: Evaluating the Effect of an Intervention to Prevent and Reduce Maternal Distress Among a Pregnant Population. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529713985

It is well known that pregnant women can suffer from maternal distress. Effective interventions can contribute to optimize antenatal maternal emotional wellbeing. A carefully developed intervention is an essential predecessor to intervention research... Read More about A Pre–Post Study Design: Evaluating the Effect of an Intervention to Prevent and Reduce Maternal Distress Among a Pregnant Population.

Effectiveness of a guided ACT-based self-help resilience training for depressive symptoms during pregnancy: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial embedded in a prospective cohort (2020)
Journal Article
Witteveen, A. B., Henrichs, J., Walker, A. L., Bohlmeijer, E. T., Burger, H., Fontein-Kuipers, Y., Schellevis, F. G., Stramrood, C. A., Olff, M., Verhoeven, C. J., & de Jonge, A. (2020). Effectiveness of a guided ACT-based self-help resilience training for depressive symptoms during pregnancy: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial embedded in a prospective cohort. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 20(1), Article 705. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03395-9

Background
During pregnancy, about 10 to 20% of women experience depressive symptoms. Subclinical depression increases the risk of peripartum depression, maternal neuro-endocrine dysregulations, and adverse birth and infant outcomes. Current treatme... Read More about Effectiveness of a guided ACT-based self-help resilience training for depressive symptoms during pregnancy: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial embedded in a prospective cohort.

Home-based end of life care for children and their families – a systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis (2020)
Journal Article
Malcolm, C., Knighting, K., & Taylor, C. (2020). Home-based end of life care for children and their families – a systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 55, 126-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2020.07.018

Abstract
Problem: There is a growing international drive to deliver children’s palliative care services closer to home. Families should have choice of where end of life (EOL) care is provided with home as one option. This review aims to establish t... Read More about Home-based end of life care for children and their families – a systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis.

The comparison of the interpersonal action component of woman-centred care reported by healthy pregnant women in different sized practices in the Netherlands: A cross-sectional study (2020)
Journal Article
Kuipers, Y. (., van Beeck, E., van den Berg, L., & Dijkhuizen, M. (2021). The comparison of the interpersonal action component of woman-centred care reported by healthy pregnant women in different sized practices in the Netherlands: A cross-sectional study. Women and Birth, 34(4), e376-e383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2020.08.002

Background: The number of interventions is lower, and the level of satisfaction is higher among women who receive midwife-led primary care from one or two midwives, compared to more midwives. This suggests that midwives in small-sized practices pract... Read More about The comparison of the interpersonal action component of woman-centred care reported by healthy pregnant women in different sized practices in the Netherlands: A cross-sectional study.

A comparison of the Fear of Childbirth Scale with the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale to identify childbirth-related fear in a sample of Dutch pregnant women: a diagnostic accuracy comparative cross-sectional study (2020)
Journal Article
Kuipers, J., Henrichs, J., & Evans, K. (2020). A comparison of the Fear of Childbirth Scale with the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale to identify childbirth-related fear in a sample of Dutch pregnant women: a diagnostic accuracy comparative cross-sectional study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 109, Article 103615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103615

Background: Because of the considerable negative effects of women’s childbirth-related anxiety, fear and worries, and the time constraints that midwives perceive to assess women’s antenatal emotional wellbeing, it is important that midwives can ident... Read More about A comparison of the Fear of Childbirth Scale with the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale to identify childbirth-related fear in a sample of Dutch pregnant women: a diagnostic accuracy comparative cross-sectional study.