Evaluation of midwifery approach from pregnancy to child raising for women diagnosed with foetal abnormality

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24659996
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: ARAKI Nao 北海道大学, 大学院保健科学研究院, 講師 (10464504)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HAYASHI Takuhiro 札幌医科大学, 産婦人科学講座, 講師 (70274917)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 胎児異常 / 妊婦 / 出生前診断

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Diagnosis of foetal abnormality is a great shock to a pregnant woman, but the women surveyed spent each day maintaining the feeling of “keeping their same life as usual”, and “I will raise this child until the delivery date”. When delivery approaches, “it is difficult to imagine one’s own delivery scene”, and when child raising started it was clear that difficulties were felt regarding “lack of knowledge about normal child raising” in relation to “newborns” and “breastfeeding, breast care, child raising”.In order to provide appropriate support for these concerns, it is important that the midwife engages with birth by the woman as a personal event, and pregnancy consultations where continuous support can be provided to meet changes in the condition of the mother and child are the best opportunity to provide the support required by mothers.

Free Research Field

助産学　遺伝看護学