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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.

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., 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.

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.

'Powers, passages and passengers' : the construction and performance of student midwives' professional identities (2021)
Thesis
McLuckie, C. (2021). 'Powers, passages and passengers' : the construction and performance of student midwives' professional identities. (Thesis). University of Stirling. Retrieved from 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.

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.

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.

The effect of Wazzup Mama?! An antenatal intervention to prevent or reduce maternal distress in pregnancy (2016)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y. J., Ausems, M., de Vries, R., & Nieuwenhuijze, M. J. (2016). The effect of Wazzup Mama?! An antenatal intervention to prevent or reduce maternal distress in pregnancy. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 19(5), 779-788. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-016-0614-8

We evaluated the effect of the intervention WazzUp Mama?! on antenatal maternal distress in a non-randomized pre-post study including healthy women in 17 Dutch midwifery practices. The control group (n = 215) received antenatal care-as-usual. The exp... Read More about The effect of Wazzup Mama?! An antenatal intervention to prevent or reduce maternal distress in pregnancy.

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.

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.

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.

Traumatic childbirth experiences: practice‐based implications for maternity care professionals from the woman's perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Koster, D., Romijn, C., Sakko, E., Stam, C., Steenhuis, N., Vries, D., Willigen, I., & Fontein‐Kuipers, Y. (2020). Traumatic childbirth experiences: practice‐based implications for maternity care professionals from the woman's perspective. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 34(3), 792-799. https://doi.org/10.1111/scs.12786

Objective: To explore women’s traumatic childbirth experiences in order to make maternity care professionals more aware of women’s intrapartum care needs. Method: A qualitative exploratory study with a constant comparison/grounded theory design wa... Read More about Traumatic childbirth experiences: practice‐based implications for maternity care professionals from the woman's perspective.

Factors Influencing the Maternal Life Balance of Flemish Mothers, a Cross-Sectional Study (2019)
Journal Article
Kuipers, J., Van Leugenhaege, L., Van de Craen, N., Van den Branden, L., Bleijenbergh, R., Mestdagh, E., & Van Rompaey, B. (2021). Factors Influencing the Maternal Life Balance of Flemish Mothers, a Cross-Sectional Study. Applied research in quality of life, 16(2), 611-627. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-019-09779-0

This cross-sectional study examined the levels of maternal life balance and its influencing factors. The sample was composed of 731 Flemish mothers who self-reported on perceived maternal life balance; maternal-infant bonding; emotional wellbeing and... Read More about Factors Influencing the Maternal Life Balance of Flemish Mothers, a Cross-Sectional Study.

Dutch midwives’ views on and experiences with woman-centred care — A Q-methodology study (2019)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y., de Groot, R., van Beeck, E., van Hooft, S., & van Staa, A. (2019). Dutch midwives’ views on and experiences with woman-centred care — A Q-methodology study. Women and Birth, 32(6), e567-e575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2019.01.003

Background: Woman-centred care is a philosophy for midwifery care management of the childbearing woman. There is no mutually recognised internalised way in midwifery to provide woman-centred care. Objective: To reveal midwives’ distinct perspectiv... Read More about Dutch midwives’ views on and experiences with woman-centred care — A Q-methodology study.

The general health questionnaire as a measure of emotional wellbeing in pregnant women (2019)
Journal Article
Kuipers, Y., Jomeen, J., Dilles, T., & Van Rompaey, B. (2019). The general health questionnaire as a measure of emotional wellbeing in pregnant women. Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice, 14(6), 447-456. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmhtep-05-2019-0028

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure reliability, validity and accuracy of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) as a measure of emotional wellbeing in pregnant women; utility and threshold in particular. Design/methodolog... Read More about The general health questionnaire as a measure of emotional wellbeing in pregnant women.

Validity and accuracy of the Whooley questions to identify maternal distress in Dutch pregnant women (2018)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y., & Jomeen, J. (2019). Validity and accuracy of the Whooley questions to identify maternal distress in Dutch pregnant women. Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice, 14(1), 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmhtep-06-2018-0034

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the validity and accuracy of the Whooley questions for routine screening of maternal distress in Dutch antenatal care. Design/methodology/approach – In this cohort design, the authors evaluated... Read More about Validity and accuracy of the Whooley questions to identify maternal distress in Dutch pregnant women.

Responding to maternal distress: from needs assessment to effective intervention (2016)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y., van Limbeek, E., Ausems, M., de Vries, R., & Nieuwenhuijze, M. (2017). Responding to maternal distress: from needs assessment to effective intervention. International Journal of Public Health, 62(4), 441-452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-016-0910-0

Objectives To perform a needs assessment of maternal distress to plan the development of an intervention for the prevention and reduction of antenatal maternal distress. Methods We searched PubMed, OVID and EBSCO and applied the PRECEDE logic mode... Read More about Responding to maternal distress: from needs assessment to effective intervention.

Factors influencing maternal distress among Dutch women with a healthy pregnancy (2015)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y., Ausems, M., Budé, L., Van Limbeek, E., De Vries, R., & Nieuwenhuijze, M. (2015). Factors influencing maternal distress among Dutch women with a healthy pregnancy. Women and Birth, 28(3), e36-e43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2015.02.002

Background: Maternal distress is a public health concern. Assessment of emotional wellbeing is not integrated in Dutch antenatal care. Midwives need to understand the influencing factors in order to identify women who are more vulnerable to experien... Read More about Factors influencing maternal distress among Dutch women with a healthy pregnancy.

Reducing maternal anxiety and stress in pregnancy: what is the best approach? (2015)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y. (2015). Reducing maternal anxiety and stress in pregnancy: what is the best approach?. Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 27(2), 128-132. https://doi.org/10.1097/gco.0000000000000155

Purpose of review To briefly review results of the latest research on approaching antenatal maternal anxiety and stress as distinct constructs within a broad spectrum of maternal antenatal distress and the preventive strategic role of the maternal h... Read More about Reducing maternal anxiety and stress in pregnancy: what is the best approach?.