Alice Humble, Mon-Lin Yu, Ted Brown
Association between parent-proxy-reported and child-self-reported perceptions of children's motor competence and children's performance-based motor skill abilities
Scandinavian journal of occupational therapy
limited research midwives use social media within professional role small pilot studies explored introduction social media maternity practice teaching little evidence around midwives use social media professionally important 89 pregnant women turn social media advice pregnancy midwives use social media could influencing women perception birth decision making aim analyse popular midwives portray birth social media platform instagram observational mixed methods study using content analysis five popular midwives country uk new zealand usa australia identified posts birth collated oneyear period 202021 imagesvideos coded descriptive statistics enabled comparison posts country categorisation used analyse understand content study identified 917 posts 20 midwives accounts containing 1216 imagesvideos coming usa n 466 uk n 239 australia n 205 new zealand n 7 respectively imagesvideos categorised birth positivity humour education birth story advertisement midwives portrayals birth represented greater proportion vaginal births waterbirths homebirths known national birth statistics popular midwives identified mainly private businesses n 17 midwives women portrayed images primarily white demonstrating disproportionate representation small midwifery presence instagram representative broader profession current picture midwifery care paper first study explore midwives using popular social media platform instagram portray birth provides insight midwives post unmedicalised low risk representation birth research recommended explore midwives motivation behind posts pregnant postnatal women engage social media