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Patients' and professionals' barriers and facilitators to external cephalic version for breech presentation at term, a qualitative analysis in the Netherlands

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Patients' and professionals' barriers and facilitators to external cephalic version for breech presentation at term, a qualitative analysis in the Netherlands

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Objective
external cephalic version (ECV) is a relatively simple and safe manoeuvre and a proven effective approach in the reduction of breech presentation at term. There is professional consensus that ECV should be offered to all women with a fetus in breech presentation, but only up to 70% of women eligible for ECV undergo an ECV attempt. The aim of the study was to identify barriers and facilitators for ECV among professionals and women with a breech presentation at term.

Design
qualitative study with semi-structured interviews.

Setting
Dutch hospitals.

Participants
pregnant women with a breech presentation who had decided on ECV, and midwives and gynaecologists treating women with a breech presentation.

Measurements
on the basis of national guidelines and expert opinions, we developed topic lists to guide the interviews and discuss barriers and facilitators in order to decide on ECV (pregnant women) or advice on ECV (midwives and gynaecologists).

Findings
among pregnant women the main barriers were fear, the preference to have a planned caesarean section (CS), incomplete information and having witnessed birth complications within the family or among friends. The main facilitators were the wish for a home birth, the wish for a vaginal delivery and confidence of the safety of ECV. Among professionals the main barriers were a lack of knowledge to fully inform and counsel patients on ECV, and the inability to counsel women who preferred a primary CS. The main facilitator was an unambiguous policy on (counselling for) ECV within the region.

Conclusion
we identified several barriers and facilitators possibly explaining the suboptimal implementation of ECV for breech presentation in the Netherlands.

This knowledge should be taken into account in designing implementation strategies for ECV to improve the uptake of ECV by professionals and patients.

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OrganisatieHogeschool Rotterdam
LectoraatKenniscentrum Zorginnovatie
Gepubliceerd inMidwifery Vol. 30 (2014), Uitgave: 3, Pagina's: 324-330
Datum2013-05-09
TypeArtikel
DOI10.1016/j.midw.2013.03.013
TaalEngels

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