Study of Awareness and Performance of Ahvazi Midwives about Physiologic Childbirth in Public Hospitals, 2016

Abstract Introduction: To promote normal childbirth the care during childbirth should be on evidence-based care. Evidence-based care practices promote physiological birth and midwives.  This study studied midwives’ awareness and performance about physiological childbirth in Ahvaz publiv maternity services.Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on maternity units in which 128 midwives were recruited using census sampling. The researcher made questionnaire were used for self-reporting of awareness and performance of midwives.Results: Majority of midwives (86.7%) had Bachelor degree, had (1-7) year’s work experience (64.1). This study showed that the Ahvazi midwives had relatively good awareness of physiologic labour items however the performance of them was not as ideal as their awareness.Conclusions: Iranian midwives are informed about evidence-based practice in childbirth which indicates that attempts to promote physiologic childbirth has been useful, however multifaceted implementation strategies are necessary to promote the use of evidence-based practice in clinical practice and health care decision making during labour childbirth