ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY An annotated bibliography is a summary of a research article in your own words. The purpose of writing the annotated bibliography is to evaluate the use of a research study for your focused integrated literature review assignment. You will find and select one article for this assignment. Each student will submit two different annotated bibliographies. The third article will be included in the literature review draft.
The annotated bibliography should be written in such a manner that anyone reading your summary should have an accurate picture of what the research was about and relevance to nursing practice. It is not a replication of the abstract, and it should have no more than two direct quotes from the article. Once you have determined an article is relevant to your topic, the contents of the research article should be synthesized to no more than 3 typed pages, 12 point font, 1 inch margins (excluding Title page and Reference page).
Qualitative Bib
The Opinions of Primiparous Pregnant Women on Delivery Methods: A Qualitative Research by Nuriye ERBAŞ by Semra ZORLU.
The delivery method is an important decision that pregnant women have to make to ensure the safety of the baby and the mother. In most cases, the best decision on the delivery method (between cesarean or vaginal birth) cannot be made by the mother because they lack the intelligence, consciousness, and will to do so objectively. Only experts can make this decision after considering various pertinent factors such as the physical and psychological conditions of the woman as well as their social condition (Chen et al., 2018). For instance, conditions such as postural disorders in the fetus, head-pelvis incompatibility, fetal distress, dystocia, large fetus, and previous cesarean delivery may bring complications with virginal delivery and only prompt cesarean delivery (ERBAŞ and ZORLU, 2021). While deciding on the best delivery method is still a problem among women, particularly in Turkey, there are scanty qualitative studies handling the topic in Turkey. To fill this gap, ERBAŞ and ZORLU (2021) opted to conduct a qualitative study that would determine the views of primiparous pregnant women about delivery and the method of delivery they preferred.
Theoretical Framework
The article did not reference or identify any theoretical framework. The theoretical framework that would be appropriate is the concept of the patient-centered care model because it takes into consideration patient preferences, needs, and wants, engage patients in clinical decision making and tailor the treatment to maximize outcomes in a cost-effective way (Marchand et al., 2019).
Sample Selection and Data Collection
ERBAŞ and ZORLU (2021) conducted this study at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic of Cumhuriyet University Health Services Research and Training Hospital in the city center of the province of Sivas in Turkey. They adopted a purposive sampling method to select primiparous pregnant women who visited e Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic of this hospital and were willing to participate in the study. 26 primiparous women volunteered to participate in the study and were interviewed.
The researchers developed a “Sociodemographic Characteristics Form” and a “Semi-Structured Interview Form” for data collection. The form had 15 questions touching on the sociodemographic characteristics of the pregnant women and 13 touching on their obstetric characteristics. The patients were interviewed using these questionnaires to determine the eligibility of the participants and gather the necessary data.
Data Analysis
The SPSS (Version: 15.0) program was used to analyze the quantitative data obtained from the study. Chi-squared test and multiple chi-squared tests were also used for the data analysis at an accepted significance level of p<0.05. Mean, standard deviation, and percentages were adopted for the presentation of the result. Qualitative data was analyzed using content analysis, that included a transcription of the responses, coding the data, finding the relevant categories, organizing, and interpreting and categorizing the found codes.
Findings and Conclusion
In their findings, ERBAŞ and ZORLU (2021) report that the relationship between the delivery method that the pregnant women thought of having and the form of the occurrence of their current pregnancy was significant at (p<0.05). Most of the participants (92.3%) preferred vaginal delivery while the remaining 7.7% preferred cesarean delivery. Among those who preferred vaginal delivery, they reasoned that the method is “a healthier birth process for mother and baby”, “associated with fast recovery”, “living the moment of birth and the immediate start of the mother-baby relationship”, “easier and more comfortable birth process” and “some gynecological diseases of the woman get better-her body is renewed”. As for those who chose the cesarean delivery, among they reasoned that the method was an “easy and painless delivery process” and “planned delivery”.
In conclusion, vaginal delivery is still the most preferred method of birth by most women. They see it as the method that is best for the health of the mother and infant. Still, some women fear vaginal birth even though it is unanimously considered the normal and natural birth process. Alternatively, they would go for the cesarean delivery because it is easy and painless and can allow a “planned delivery”. This divide in opinion calls up on health care providers to pregnant women to consider their opinions while deciding on their delivery method.
Relevance to Nursing Practice
This article reminds those who provide care to pregnant women to consider their opinions and preference concerning their most preferred method of delivery in order to uphold patients’ autonomy and informed consent in a bit to provide patient-centered care. Healthcare professionals must not assume that all pregnant women would go for a vaginal birth even though it is considered the normal and natural birth process and widely preferred. However, they must also realize that the decision to have a natural birth or caesarian delivery does not entirely belong to the patient. Care providers must apply their expertise in the decision-making process. As such, healthcare providers should educate pregnant women about the devilry process and choices, give their recommendations, and allow them to make informed decisions.
Reference
Chen, S. W., Hutchinson, A. M., Nagle, C., & Bucknall, T. K. (2018). Women’s decision-making processes and the influences on their mode of birth following a previous caesarean section in Taiwan: a qualitative study. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 18(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-018-1661-0
ERBAŞ, N., & ZORLU, S. (2021). The Opinions of Primiparous Pregnant Women on Delivery Methods: A Qualitative Research. Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Nursing Sciences, 13(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.5336/nurses.2020-80307
Marchand, K., Beaumont, S., Westfall, J., MacDonald, S., Harrison, S., Marsh, D. C., & Oviedo-Joekes, E. (2019). Conceptualizing patient-centered care for substance use disorder treatment: findings from a systematic scoping review. Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy, 14(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-019-0227-0