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Renee T Ridley

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PubMed2004

Development of a multilingual resource manual.

Providing culturally competent health care is a growing need as the population of culturally diverse women continues to rise. Compilation of a multilingual resource manual about maternal-child and women's health topics that can be used by health educators to provide care to non-English-speaking and limited English proficiency (LEP) clients was achieved to address this need. In this article, significant details of this process are described allowing the reader to produce a similar version of the manual.

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What influences a woman to choose vaginal birth after cesarean?

OBJECTIVE: To discover what influences women in the decision to deliver via vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC). DESIGN: Descriptive and qualitative, influenced by principles of phenomenology and using content analysis to describe the lived experiences of women who choose VBAC. SETTING: Women were recruited from a postpartum unit in a hospital in the rural southeastern United States. PARTICIPANTS: Five women who had delivered via VBAC within 2 to 4 months before the study. RESULTS: The major influences that affect a woman's decision to choose VBAC are described. The dominant themes found were the woman's sense of control in the decision-making process; physician encouragement for VBAC; and delivery type outcome advantages, incorporating physical and emotional factors. CONCLUSION: Women are influenced by internal and external factors in their decision to choose VBAC. Their choices come from their personal experiences and should be encouraged by health care providers during all aspects of the childbearing process.

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