Attitudes of Expectant Mothers Towards Male Midwives

Document from the year 2018 in the subject Health Sciences - Health Psychology, , language: English, abstract: The main thrust of this study was to investigate the attitudes of expectant mothers' towards the care provided by male student midwives in the maternity unit of General Hospital, Calabar, Cross River State - Nigeria. To achieve the purpose of this study, three research questions were formulated for the study and two hypotheses were generated to direct the study. Literature was reviewed to find out the other researchers' view about the topic under investigation. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. A sample of fifty (50) expectant mothers was used for the study. The selection was done through consecutive sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled 'Attitudes of Expectant Mothers' towards Care Provided by Male Midwives Questionnaire (AEMCPMSMQ)'. The instrument was subjected to both face and content validation by the supervisor. The reliability estimate of the instruments was established through the Cronbach Alpha Reliability method. Simple percentage and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Method were the statistical analysis techniques adopted to test the hypotheses under study. All hypothesis were subjected to testing at .05 level of significance with relative degrees of freedom.