Abstract
ABSTRACTIntroduction: According to the Nurses and Midwives Act and other legal Acts, a midwife is a person having appropriate competence for independent care of a woman during physiological pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period, and a newborn. These entitlements do not only apply to practice in a hospital or clinic, but also to home conditions, including physiological delivery in locations other than a hospital.The aim of the study is to know the opinion of midwives on planned births in non-hospital locations.Materials and methods: 233 midwives from all over Poland were surveyed. The survey was conducted between May and August 2014. The diagnostic survey method was applied using the author’s questionnaire. Statistica 10 and MS Office programs were used for statistical analysis.Results: 22.1% of the surveyed midwives expressed a willingness to attend a home birth. 67.1% of respondents would not attend a home birth. The decision to attend a birth in non-clinical setting was significantly dependent on the safety of such a birth (p = 0.0000).Conclusions: There was a statistically significant relationship between the opinion of the respondents on the safety of out-of-hospital birth setting and possible handling of such labors.
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