Midwifery
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to evaluate the efficiency of the midwife preceptors in teaching comprehensive health care for women and their families through exploring how they perceive their roles as educators and from the perspectives of medical students; to assess the number of educational goals achieved. ⋯ this programme encouraged the medical students to adopt broad public health approaches in assessing the health needs of defined communities. It also increased their awareness of the importance of multi-professional teamwork and comprehensive health care for women and their families. At the same time, the programme improved the professional knowledge of midwives, and they were able to appreciate their roles and functions in primary health care, and enhance their self-esteem. The findings also indicated that this programme is an effective way of promoting multi-professional education in medical schools.
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to investigate the knowledge and attitudes towards Down's syndrome screening among pregnant women presenting for prenatal screening in Greece, in order to explore whether Greek women are able to make informed choices. ⋯ on the basis of the current measure of informed choice, we found that knowledge is a weak determinant of uptake of screening. However, the measure focuses on knowledge regarding the screening process, rather than on the condition itself. In addition, informed choice is a far broader concept than the issues covered by the measurement tool. Therefore, it could be concluded that attempts to increase attitude-behaviour consistency (i.e. to increase uptake for women with positive attitudes towards screening and to decrease uptake for women with negative attitudes) could be more successful in increasing informed choice in screening for Down's syndrome in Greece.