Outputs (14)

Developing an evaluation framework for an online midwifery programme: a practical participatory approach (2024)
Journal Article
Kuipers, Y., Norris, G., Crozier, S., & McLuckie, C. (in press). Developing an evaluation framework for an online midwifery programme: a practical participatory approach. Quality Assurance in Education, https://doi.org/10.1108/qae-03-2024-0048

Purpose:
This paper aims to generate knowledge about relevant evaluation topics that align with and represent the unique character of the midwifery programme for students living in the rural and remote areas of Scotland.

Design/methodology/approa... Read More about Developing an evaluation framework for an online midwifery programme: a practical participatory approach.

Perceived Reality and Subjective Importance of Shared Decision-Making During Perinatal Care (2024)
Journal Article
Kuipers, Y., Bosmans, V., De Bock, V., Van de Craen, N., & Mestdagh, E. (online). Perceived Reality and Subjective Importance of Shared Decision-Making During Perinatal Care. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice: An International Journal, https://doi.org/10.1891/rtnp-2024-0041

Aim: The aim of the study is to explore perceived reality and subjective importance of shared decision-making (SDM) during antenatal, intrapartum, and/or postpartum care, provided by the midwife and/or obstetrician.

Methods: A cross-sectional stu... Read More about Perceived Reality and Subjective Importance of Shared Decision-Making During Perinatal Care.

‘Naming and faming’ maternity care providers: A mixed-methods study (2023)
Journal Article
Kuipers, Y., De Bock, V., Van de Craen, N., & Bosmans, V. (2024). ‘Naming and faming’ maternity care providers: A mixed-methods study. Midwifery, 130, 103912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2023.103912

Background: Positive benchmarking can serve as a catalyst for maternity care improvement.

Aim: To retrospectively benchmark Flemish maternity care providers’ qualities, based on women’s positive care experiences, and to explore which attributes o... Read More about ‘Naming and faming’ maternity care providers: A mixed-methods study.

Discursive constructions of student midwives’ professional identities: A discourse analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Mcluckie, C., & Kuipers, Y. (2024). Discursive constructions of student midwives’ professional identities: A discourse analysis. Nurse Education in Practice, 74, Article 103847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2023.103847

Background
The construction and performance of professional identity is significant to broader socio-cultural understandings of who ‘professionals’ are and what they do. Importantly, it is also implicated in the development and enactment of policy,... Read More about Discursive constructions of student midwives’ professional identities: A discourse analysis.

Midwifery Practice and Education in Antwerp: Forecasting Its Future With Scenario Planning (2022)
Journal Article
Bleijenbergh, R., Mestdagh, E., & Kuipers, Y. J. (2022). Midwifery Practice and Education in Antwerp: Forecasting Its Future With Scenario Planning. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 53(1), 21-29. https://doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20211210-07

Background: Midwifery across the world is facing changes and uncertainties. By recognizing plausible future options, a contemporary and strategic scope of midwifery practice and education can be established. The city of Antwerp, Belgium, was the indi... Read More about Midwifery Practice and Education in Antwerp: Forecasting Its Future With Scenario Planning.

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.

It takes a village to raise a child. PATH project (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kuipers, Y. (2019, November). It takes a village to raise a child. PATH project. Presented at Perinatal Quality Network (PQN) for perinatal mental health services, annual forum Royal College of Psychiatrists, London

Proactive behaviour in midwifery practice: A qualitative overview based on midwives’ perspectives (2019)
Journal Article
Mestdagh, E., Timmermans, O., Fontein-Kuipers, Y., & Van Rompaey, B. (2019). Proactive behaviour in midwifery practice: A qualitative overview based on midwives’ perspectives. Sexual and Reproductive HealthCare, 20, 87-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2019.04.002

Background: Midwifery practice is in the process of continuing developments and contemporary working conditions asking for proactive behaviour, which could increase work-efficiency, job satisfaction, commitment and coping attitudes towards stress res... Read More about Proactive behaviour in midwifery practice: A qualitative overview based on midwives’ perspectives.

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.

Reports of work-related traumatic events: a mixed-methods study (2018)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y., Duivis, H., Schamper, V., Schmitz, V., Stam, A., & Koster, D. (2018). Reports of work-related traumatic events: a mixed-methods study. European Journal of Midwifery, 2, https://doi.org/10.18332/ejm/100611

INTRODUCTION There is limited evidence of the effect and impact on midwives of being involved or witnessing traumatic work-related events. We categorised midwives’ selfreported traumatic work-related events and responses to an event and explored the... Read More about Reports of work-related traumatic events: a mixed-methods study.

‘ISeeYou’: A woman-centred care education and research project in Dutch bachelor midwifery education (2018)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y., Romeijn, E., Zwijnenberg, A., Eekhof, W., & van Staa, A. (2018). ‘ISeeYou’: A woman-centred care education and research project in Dutch bachelor midwifery education. Health Education Journal, 77(8), 899-914. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896918784618

Objective: To examine how student midwives in higher education learn to become competent and confident woman-centred practitioners.

Design: Participant observation study using a ‘buddy’ approach.

Setting: Bachelor of Midwifery students in one h... Read More about ‘ISeeYou’: A woman-centred care education and research project in Dutch bachelor midwifery education.

ISeeYou – Evaluation of a woman-centred care pilot project in Bachelor midwifery education and research (2017)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y., & Romeijn, E. (2018). ISeeYou – Evaluation of a woman-centred care pilot project in Bachelor midwifery education and research. Midwifery, 58, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2017.11.005

Aim: to evaluate the ISeeYou project that aims to equip first year Bachelor midwifery students to support them in their learning of providing woman-centred care.

Methods: the project has an ethnographic design. First year midwifery students buddie... Read More about ISeeYou – Evaluation of a woman-centred care pilot project in Bachelor midwifery education and research.

Dutch midwives' behavioural intentions of antenatal management of maternal distress and factors influencing these intentions: An exploratory survey (2013)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y. J., Budé, L., Ausems, M., de Vries, R., & Nieuwenhuijze, M. J. (2014). Dutch midwives' behavioural intentions of antenatal management of maternal distress and factors influencing these intentions: An exploratory survey. Midwifery, 30(2), 234-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2013.06.010

Objective: to explore midwives' behavioural intentions and the determinants of these intentions with regard to the management of antenatal care of women with maternal distress.

Design: an exploratory survey using a questionnaire. Descriptive stati... Read More about Dutch midwives' behavioural intentions of antenatal management of maternal distress and factors influencing these intentions: An exploratory survey.

A Clinical Decision (2008)
Journal Article
Kuipers, Y. (2008). A Clinical Decision. MIDIRS midwifery digest, 18(1), 35-38