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From midwifery competencies on sexual wellbeing to teaching and training midwives on sexuality
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PXL University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hasselt, Brussels, Belgium
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Outpatient centre for sexual health, Saint Fransiscus Hospital, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
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Department Health Care, Knowledge Centre Brussels Integrated Care, Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Brussels, Belgium
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Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Publication date: 2023-10-24
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Sam Geuens
PXL University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hasselt, Brussels, Belgium
Eur J Midwifery 2023;7(Supplement 1):A217
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All around the world midwives are educated to assist women go through the reproductive phase of their lives in a way that enables them to be happy and healthy women, partners and mothers before, during and after pregnancy. While sexual wellbeing is increasingly recognised as an intricate part of general health and wellbeing midwifery schools around the world struggle with integrating sexuality into their curriculum.
This chapter offers the building blocks for easily integrating sexuality and sexual wellbeing, both on a theoretical and a practical level, into existing midwifery curricula. It presents a tool for screening current curriculum on sexuality-related topics already addressed and describes content for theoretical and practical lessons, while also connecting content to existing international midwifery competence profiles. Finally it provides practical guidelines for both identifying suitable midwifery tutors to teach on sexuality, as well as providing concrete examples for building practicals concerning sexuality within midwifery contexts.
‘From midwifery competencies on sexual wellbeing to teaching and training midwives on sexuality’ is a part of the larger publication ‘Sexuality & Midwifery’, an open access textbook published by Springer Nature, geared at midwives and related healthcare professionals providing an overview of the current scientific knowledge on sexuality and midwifery, presented in a practice oriented way.