Journal article
'The greatest feeling you get, knowing you have made a big difference': survey findings on the motivation and experiences of trained volunteer doulas in England
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Support from a doula is known to have physical and emotional benefits for mothers, but there is little evidence about the experiences of volunteer doulas. This research aimed to understand the motivation and experiences of volunteer doulas who have been trained to support women during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.A postal questionnaire survey was sent to volunteer doulas at five volunteer doula projects working in low-income areas in England. Quantitative and qualitative data wer...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s12884-016-1086-6
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth Journal website
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 289
- Pages:
- 1-11
- Publication date:
- 2017-09-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-16
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1471-2393
- Pmid:
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27680500
- Source identifiers:
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648012
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:648012
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uuid:0abe2818-67f0-4146-b3b7-a05414b75dc1
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- pubs:648012
- Deposit date:
- 2017-09-20
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- © Spiby, et al 2016
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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