Case Study: Using Evidenced Based Research to Change Attitudes Towards Home Births [ABSTRACT]
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By Leah Hazard

Abstract

The subject of home births elicits many opinions, not all of them based on the facts. Leah Hazard shares what she's learned about combining quantitative and qualitative research in writing a home birth handbook, as well as her efforts to get the information into the hands of the people who need it most.

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The subject of home births elicits many opinions, not all of them based on the facts. Leah Hazard shares what she's learned about combining quantitative and qualitative research in writing a home birth handbook, as well as her efforts to get the information into the hands of the people who need it most.

What's Inside:

Asked why they were so opposed to home birth, the men would simply say, ‘I just don’t think it’s safe. What if something happens?’ However, most of these men were hard pressed to substantiate that idea with any solid factual basis. Very few of them, if any, had ever heard of a friend, colleague, or relative who had witnessed a normal, straightforward birth in the hospital, let alone at home.  The correct information, although available and of high quality, was not easily usable and digestible to the expectant public and their partners.

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