24. 11-11-16 Sid Lucia – konsthantverk av Ylva, 4 år
Editor's Notes
The midwife can use some tools to identify harmful comsumption, e.g. AUDIT. You get an idea of the pregnant woman´s habits and how much she drinks. This can be the starting point for talking about alcohol. Motivational interviewing is also a good tool to use in this situation and make the pregnant woman to put her thoughts into words. The midwife has an excellent opportunity to help her to find a solution if there are any problems.
I have had the responsibility for educating the midwives in the Swedish primary health care. Here you can compare what´s happend between 2006 and 2009. About 33% are educated 1-2 days, 3 days or more than 3 days in 2009, totally 99%!. It´s only 1 % that have no education at all. Have to do something about it!
Here is a picture comparing the base line studie with the follow up studie concerning midwifery, nurses and physicians in primary health care and nurses and physicians. As project leaders we work pretty hard to reach our goals and it has given results so far. occupational health care. The green bars are the most evident and show successful activities in the project.
We asked the midwives about their opinion of their skills concerning handling the alcohol issue. 92% think they have good or very good skills compared with 2006 when 60 % thought they had good or very good skills.