Browsing Open Theses & Dissertations by Author "Mellor, Christine"

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Midwives' Perspectives of Mental Health and Maternal Mental Health: An Interpretive Descriptive Study

Mellor, Christine (Auckland University of Technology, 2016)

Using interpretive descriptive methodology, this qualitative research explores midwives' perceptions of mental health and the assessment of maternal mental health during pregnancy. Current literature suggests that maternal ...
Midwives’ and Obstetricians’ Experience of Place in Relation to Supporting Physiological Birth: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study

Mellor, Christine (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)

National and international evidence shows that ‘place’ influences birth outcomes, but evidence is limited as to ‘how’. In New Zealand, there are significant differences in the rates of spontaneous vaginal births by ‘place’, ...