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An exploration of the development of resilience in student midwives.
- Source :
- British Journal of Midwifery; Jun2021, Vol. 29 Issue 6, p330-337, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Student midwives have to complete a demanding programme to become a midwife, and therefore it is questioned whether they need resilience to be successful. The study's aims were to explore whether resilience developed in one cohort of 25 undergraduate student midwives and what the concept of resilience meant to them. This study adopted a longitudinal case study approach in one Higher Education Institution in England during the first 18 months of their programme. The study used Wagnild and Young's (1993) (updated 2015) True Resilience Scale©, administered on three occasions. Additionally, four focus groups were conducted twice and six participants were involved in one-to-one interviews to explore issues raised in the focus group. SPSS Pairwise comparisons revealed that there were significant differences in True Resilience Scale© scores between the first and the second completion (p=0.034), and time one and time three (p=0.002); there were no significant differences between time two and time three (p=1.0). In this cohort of student midwives, the scale showed that the majority had developed their resilience during the study and this was supported in what the students reported. A conceptual model, which defines resilience for student midwives, is presented to strengthen how resilience can be supported and developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MIDWIFERY education
MIDWIVES
FOCUS groups
HEALTH occupations students
MATHEMATICAL models
ONE-way analysis of variance
INTERVIEWING
PSYCHOLOGY of Undergraduates
CASE studies
THEORY
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
REPEATED measures design
STUDENT attitudes
DATA analysis software
JUDGMENT sampling
PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience
LONGITUDINAL method
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09694900
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Midwifery
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 150660073
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2021.29.6.330