- Title
- Midwives knowledge and education/training in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM): A national survey
- Creator
- Mollart, Lyndall; Stulz, Virginia; Foureur, Maralyn
- Relation
- Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice Vol. 45, no. 101473
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2021.101473
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Despite the proliferation of research exploring complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use in maternity care and midwifery practice, there is a gap on midwives' level of CAM knowledge and education/training. This national survey investigated Australian midwives’ knowledge and education/training in CAM. A total of 571 midwives completed the survey (16%). Over half (54.3%) had some level of CAM education/training (self-learning to diploma) and with multiple CAM modalities. The top four modalities that midwives had received education/training were acupressure (66.5%), aromatherapy (60.3%), massage (45.5%), and reflexology (37.7%). There was a significant correlation between midwives attending a CAM workshop with competency-assessment (p < 0.000) and confidence to discuss CAM options with pregnant women compared with participants who have not. There are no other health-related therapies used by women consumers with such frequency where clinicians are not expected to have baseline knowledge and understanding. Midwifery education programs need to include evidence-based information on CAM modalities.
- Subject
- midwifery; complementary and alternative medicine; knowledge; education; national survey; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1471456
- Identifier
- uon:48684
- Identifier
- ISSN:1744-3881
- Language
- eng
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