Patients need to receive the same kind of information about the same issue from each professional

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Abstract

Method
The questionnaire has been developed from a validated instrument “Womens Experience of Maternity Care” (author - National Health Service, (Great Britain, 2019) and adapted to the situation in Latvia. The permission to use it has been obtained from authors. The questionnaire is meant for women regardless of their health status during the perinatal period or who have no co-morbidities, diagnosed in perinatal period of care. The questionnaire is designed to find out patients' experiences of receiving healthcare and its compliance with the guidelines, identifying potential problems and creating opportunities to correct them. There were 50 patients in Maternity Hospital postpartum unit interviewed. 12 of them were women living with HIV.
Results
One of five main comment themes was - patients felt the need to receive the same kind of information about the same issue from all health care professional regardless of staff changes on call.
The women point out that they have no problems with content in communication process during intranatal period, at labor unit. The problem with different kind of information about the same matter is emerging in postpartum period, at maternity unit.
Conclusions
There is different kind of knowledge and professional skills among health care professionals, even if they work in the same field, the same hospital and the same unit.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība = Society. Integration. Education
Subtitle of host publicationstarptautiskās zinātniskās konferences materiāli = proceedings of the international
EditorsVelta Lubkina, Karīna Laganovska, Aivars Kaupužs
Place of PublicationRēzekne
Pages265-273
Number of pages9
Volume4: Mūžizglītība. Sabiedrības veselība un sports. Māksla un dizains
Publication statusPublished - 2021
EventInternational Scientific Conference “Society. Integration. Education: Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība”, 2021 - RTA , Rēzekne, Latvia
Duration: 28 May 202129 May 2021

Publication series

NameSociety. Integration. Education=Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība
ISSN (Print)1691-5887

Conference

ConferenceInternational Scientific Conference “Society. Integration. Education: Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība”, 2021
Country/TerritoryLatvia
CityRēzekne
Period28/05/2129/05/21

Keywords*

  • communication
  • medical personnel
  • perinatal health care
  • women`s experience

Field of Science*

  • 3.3 Health sciences

Publication Type*

  • 3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database

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