Abstract
Study aim: To ascertain what is learnt by undergraduate midwifery students during their clinical training in childbirth care.
Methods: A total of 18 midwifery undergraduate students agreed to participate. Data were collected via semi−structured interviews. The text mining technique was used for analysis.
Results: A total of 7,001 structural elements were analyzed. In example 1, which included “Uneasiness and nervousness”, 7 clusters were obtained. In example 3, which included “Understanding the importance of assistance at the first labor stage”, 7 clusters were again obtained. In example 6, which included “Self awareness”, 6 clusters were obtained. In example 10, which included “Practice of general childbirth care”, 6 clusters were again obtained.
Conclusion: Learning characteristics were found in each childbirth care example. Students obtained the sense of real childbirth in example1,they understood the importance of assistance in the first stage of labor in example 3, and they became aware of their challenges in example 6. Finally, in example 10, they started to identify themselves as midwives.
