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CONFERENCE PROCEEDING
Implementing a customised hands-on research course for the midwifery educators and midwives from Southeast Asia: A process documentation
1
Foundation for Research in Health Systems, Public Health Research, BENGALURU, India
2
University of Gothenburg, Institute of Health and Care Sciences- Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden
Eur J Midwifery 2026;10(Supplement 1):A773
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
Research empowers a profession's identity, including midwifery. The State of World's Midwifery 2023 highlights the relatively weak research capacity among the midwives from SEAR, recommending urgency in bridging the gap to ensure midwives from SEAR can generate their own evidence, showcase the impact of midwifery on society and establish midwifery as a profession unequivocally, even as several SEAR countries transition to Midwife-led-models of care. Foundation for Research in Health Systems (FRHS), developed a research course for early-career midwives and educators from SEAR aiming to introduce a culture of research in their education, practice and advocacy. The course, provided them with an opportunity to build upon their existing knowledge of research and use it to generate primary evidence to advance midwifery as a profession.
DISCUSSION:
A 9 month-long course was conceptualised using the theory of experiential learning. A course curriculum was developed and content validated by established midwifery researchers. Kirkpatrick's Four-levels of Training Evaluation was used to develop the indicators on participants' reactions, learning, behavior and course-results, and formative mixed-method evaluation measufres were built into the course. The course was implemented in a hybrid-model: weekly 3-hourly online sessions, and face-to-face workshops, 5 days each, at three timepoints during the course: 1) first month "developing a protocol using participant-generated research questions", 2) third month: "practice ethical data collection processes", 3) 7th month "data cleaning, analysis and scientific writing". Two batches of participants (n=18) underwent the course between 2022-2025. 4-10 mentoring sessions were also provided to hand-hold participants.
EVIDENCE WHERE RELEVANT:
Growing confidence and higher levels of assertiveness and professional identity were reported by the participating midwives and was visible in their interactions with relevant government authorities to seek approvals, and advocacy for their projects.
KEY MESSAGE:
The novel course resulted in three pioneering midwifery projects by midwives from SEAR, three abstracts submitted to ICM Congress 2026, showcasing the course's effectiveness. Poster session 3 (Group B)
Research empowers a profession's identity, including midwifery. The State of World's Midwifery 2023 highlights the relatively weak research capacity among the midwives from SEAR, recommending urgency in bridging the gap to ensure midwives from SEAR can generate their own evidence, showcase the impact of midwifery on society and establish midwifery as a profession unequivocally, even as several SEAR countries transition to Midwife-led-models of care. Foundation for Research in Health Systems (FRHS), developed a research course for early-career midwives and educators from SEAR aiming to introduce a culture of research in their education, practice and advocacy. The course, provided them with an opportunity to build upon their existing knowledge of research and use it to generate primary evidence to advance midwifery as a profession.
DISCUSSION:
A 9 month-long course was conceptualised using the theory of experiential learning. A course curriculum was developed and content validated by established midwifery researchers. Kirkpatrick's Four-levels of Training Evaluation was used to develop the indicators on participants' reactions, learning, behavior and course-results, and formative mixed-method evaluation measufres were built into the course. The course was implemented in a hybrid-model: weekly 3-hourly online sessions, and face-to-face workshops, 5 days each, at three timepoints during the course: 1) first month "developing a protocol using participant-generated research questions", 2) third month: "practice ethical data collection processes", 3) 7th month "data cleaning, analysis and scientific writing". Two batches of participants (n=18) underwent the course between 2022-2025. 4-10 mentoring sessions were also provided to hand-hold participants.
EVIDENCE WHERE RELEVANT:
Growing confidence and higher levels of assertiveness and professional identity were reported by the participating midwives and was visible in their interactions with relevant government authorities to seek approvals, and advocacy for their projects.
KEY MESSAGE:
The novel course resulted in three pioneering midwifery projects by midwives from SEAR, three abstracts submitted to ICM Congress 2026, showcasing the course's effectiveness. Poster session 3 (Group B)
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