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List of works by Christine McCourt

'Keeping birth normal': Exploratory evaluation of a training package for midwives in an inner-city, alongside midwifery unit

scientific article published on 2 February 2018

'Oh no, no, no, we haven׳t got time to be doing that': Challenges encountered introducing a breast-feeding support intervention on a postnatal ward.

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

A change laboratory for maternity care in Brazil: Pilot implementation of Mother Baby Friendly Birthing Initiative

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

A meta-synthesis of women's perceptions and experiences of breastfeeding support

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Adopting a healthy lifestyle when pregnant and obese - an interview study three years after childbirth

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Bangladeshi women's experiences of infant feeding in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

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Barriers to women's access to alongside midwifery units in England

scientific article published on 22 June 2019

Blood pressure self-monitoring in pregnancy (BuMP) feasibility study; a qualitative analysis of women's experiences of self-monitoring.

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Blood pressure self-monitoring in pregnancy: examining feasibility in a prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

Caseload midwifery in a multi-ethnic community: the women's experiences.

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Childbirth care practices in public sector facilities in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: a descriptive study.

scientific article published on 15 March 2014

Clinical interventions and outcomes of One-to-One midwifery practice.

scientific article published in September 1999

Development of the Migrant Friendly Maternity Care Questionnaire (MFMCQ) for migrants to Western societies: an international Delphi consensus process

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Disempowered, passive and isolated: how teenage mothers' postnatal inpatient experiences in the UK impact on the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding.

scientific article published on 25 September 2014

Disrespectful intrapartum care during facility-based delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: A qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis of women's perceptions and experiences.

scientific article published on 28 September 2016

Does continuity of carer matter to women from minority ethnic groups?

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Duration and urgency of transfer in births planned at home and in freestanding midwifery units in England: secondary analysis of the birthplace national prospective cohort study

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Empowering change: realist evaluation of a Scottish Government programme to support normal birth

scientific article published on 25 July 2013

Ethnographic study of the use of interventions during the second stage of labor in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

scientific article published on 09 September 2018

Evaluation of community-level interventions to increase early initiation of antenatal care in pregnancy: protocol for the Community REACH study, a cluster randomised controlled trial with integrated process and economic evaluations.

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Evaluation of one-to-one midwifery: women's responses to care.

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Evaluation of the use of health care assistants to support disadvantaged women breastfeeding in the community.

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Immigrant and non-immigrant women's experiences of maternity care: a systematic and comparative review of studies in five countries

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Information provision for screening programmes requires a complex, person-centred approach

scientific article published on October 2014

Involving seldom-heard groups in a PPI process to inform the design of a proposed trial on the use of probiotics to prevent preterm birth: a case study.

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

Is self monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy safe and effective?

scientific article published on 18 November 2014

Life after hospital closure: users' views of living in residential 'resettlement' projects. A case study in consumer-led research.

scientific article published on September 2000

Mapping midwifery and obstetric units in England

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Midwives' perspectives on (dis)respectful intrapartum care during facility-based delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Mother knows best: developing a consumer led, evidence informed, research agenda for maternity care

scientific article published on 09 August 2012

One-to-one midwifery. Women's responses

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

Organisational strategies and midwives' readiness to provide care for out of hospital births: an analysis from the birthplace organisational case studies

scientific article published on 29 August 2012

Organising safe and sustainable care in alongside midwifery units: Findings from an organisational ethnographic study

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

Perinatal and maternal outcomes by planned place of birth for healthy women with low risk pregnancies: the Birthplace in England national prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 23 November 2011

Perinatal and maternal outcomes in planned home and obstetric unit births in women at 'higher risk' of complications: secondary analysis of the Birthplace national prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 21 January 2015

Person-centred care in interventions to limit weight gain in pregnant women with obesity - a systematic review

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Prevalence of spontaneous, induced labour or planned caesarean section and factors associated with caesarean section in low-risk women in southern Brazil

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

Problem based learning in midwifery--the students' perspective.

scientific article published on 11 May 2007

Problem-based learning. Reducing the theory-practice gap?

scientific article published in July 2001

Psychosocial support for families of children with neurodisability who have or are considering a gastrostomy: the G-PATH mixed-methods study

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Relationships and trust: Two key pillars of a well-functioning freestanding midwifery unit

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Research and theory for Nursing and Midwifery: Rethinking the Nature of Evidence.

scientific article published on January 2005

Sarah's birth. How the medicalisation of childbirth may be shaped in different settings: Vignette from a study of routine intervention in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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Service configuration, unit characteristics and variation in intervention rates in a national sample of obstetric units in England: an exploratory analysis

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Social richness, socio-technical tension and the virtual commissioning of NHS research.

scientific article published on 6 June 2007

Supporting choice and control? Communication and interaction between midwives and women at the antenatal booking visit

scientific article published on 29 August 2005

Technologies of birth and models of midwifery care

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The possibilities of problem based learning in midwifery.

scientific article published in May 2001

The use of clinical audit in evaluating maternity services reform: a critical reflection

scientific article published on 01 February 1998

Using Midwifery Monitor to assess quality in two maternity care systems

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

Using traditional acupuncture for breast cancer-related hot flashes and night sweats.

scientific article published on October 2010

Vaginal cones or balls to improve pelvic floor muscle performance and urinary continence in women post partum: A quantitative systematic review.

scientific article published on 09 September 2015

Vaginal cones or balls to improve pelvic floor muscle performance and urinary continence in women postpartum: a quantitative systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

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Vibrating vaginal balls to improve pelvic floor muscle performance in women after childbirth: a protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial.

scientific article published on 28 December 2015

What are the benefits and barriers of communicating parental HIV status to seronegative children and the implications for Jamaica? A narrative review of the literature in low/middle income countries.

scientific article published on January 2013

What is current practice in offering debriefing services to post partum women and what are the perceptions of women in accessing these services: a critical review of the literature.

scientific article published on 27 December 2013

What makes alongside midwifery-led units work? Lessons from a national research project.

scientific article published in June 2015

What price for a perfect delivery?

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Women's experiences of induction of labour: Qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis

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Women's perceptions and experiences of breastfeeding support: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Women's perceptions and experiences of breastfeeding support: a metasynthesis

scientific article published on 23 December 2010

Women's safety alerts in maternity care: is speaking up enough?

scientific article published on 15 February 2013

[Obstetric care models in the Southern Region of Brazil and associated factors]

scientific article published on 25 March 2019

`It makes sense and it works': Maternity care providers' perspectives on the feasibility of a group antenatal care model (Pregnancy Circles)

scientific article published on 02 August 2018