Yvonne Kuipers
yvonne kuipers

Prof Yvonne Kuipers

Professor

 0131 455 3546

  Y.Kuipers@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Yvonne Kuipers is a Professor of Midwifery and has a background that has encompassed a career in women鈥檚 reproductive health that spans over 20 years; as an independent midwife in the Netherlands, and teaching and researching women鈥檚 reproductive health within universities in the Netherlands, Belgium and Scotland. Yvonne is a honorary professor at the University of Antwerp and she is an NMC Registered Midwife and Lecturer.

Yvonne completed her PhD in 2016 at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. During the PhD she developed and tested an interactive tailored web-based intervention to prevent and reduce antenatal maternal distress. The intervention was effective and was later successfully adapted for Flanders, Belgium.

Yvonne her research domains include woman-centred care, midwifery models of care and women's emotional well-being throughout the transition period to motherhood. She has been awarded for the ISeeYou project, a woman-centred continuity of carer midwifery student project, for its innovative nature, at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences ("Wall of fame", 2017). The project was also the price winning research project at the International Normal Labour & Birth Research Conference (2017).

Yvonne Kuipers is a strong advocate for improving the emotional well-being of women during the transition to parenthood and the development of healthy and resilient families through research, publications, education and presenting at conferences.

School

Research Groups

Themes

Research Areas

Esteem

Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Midwifery Unit Network (MUNet)
  • EU COST 18212 Action Perinatal Mental Health and Birth-Related Trauma: maximising best practice and optimal outcomes (DEVoTION)
  • Small-sized and caseload midwifery practices
  • Concerning Maternity Network Group
  • Guideline 'Antenatal care'
  • Normal Labour & Birth
  • Scottish Woman Held Maternity Record (SWHMR)
  • Interprofessional Learning
  • Guideline 'Delayed first and second stage of labour'
  • Local protocol development

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Online seminar woman-centred care
  • CARE4 International Scientific Nursing and Midwifery Congress

 

Editorial Activity

  • Associate Editor Woman and Birth
  • Midwifery Units Standards
  • Kennispoort
  • Lancet Midwifery Series

 

External Examining/Validations

  • PhD: Credibility and Health Professional Academics - a Discursive Exploration based on Midwifery
  • PhD: COmmunity-based maternity care for women liviNg in areas of ethNic diversity and soCial disadvanTage: an intersectional approach
  • PhD: A PAR project for implementation of a midwifery unit in Italy
  • PhD: A Patient Engagement Model for Perinatal ehealth Development and Quality Assurance
  • PhD: Learning from childbirth experiences - opponent public PhD defence
  • PhD: Walking the path. Creating a framework for midwifery ethics in the United States - opponent public PhD defence
  • PhD: Getting the picture. Understanding the role of third trimester routine ultrasounds in maternal anxiety and bonding - opponent public PhD defence

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • The-all-you-need-to-know-about-continuity-of-carer-newsletter

 

Grant Funding Panel Member

  • ZonMW

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Swiss National Science Foundation

 

Invited Speaker

  • Perceived reality and subjective importance of shared decision-making during perinatal care
  • Home birth - a means to an end or an end in itself?
  • Women's traumatic childbirth experiences
  • Midwifery-led care: A mixed-methods synthesis
  • When your dream job can become a nightmare: reports of work-related traumatic events.
  • PATH PerinatAl menTal Health.
  • Black Mirror: Midwifery practice and education in Antwerp: forecasting its future with scenario planning
  • Validity and accuracy of the Whooley questions and Fear of Childbirth Scale to identify antenatal reduced emotional wellbeing.
  • Psychological health of pregnant and postpartum women before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Validity and accuracy of the Whooley questions and Fear of Childbirth Scale to identify antenatal reduced emotional wellbeing
  • PATH- Perinatal mentAl HealTH: study protocol
  • On cloud 9? Maternal emotional wellbeing 6 weeks to 1 year postpartum. A cross-sectional study in Flanders
  • Perceptions of midwives on their role in transition to parenthood 鈥 A Q-methodology study.
  • Woman-centred care - mission impossible or catch 22?
  • 鈥業SeeYou鈥: A woman-centred care education and research project in Dutch bachelor midwifery education.
  • Non-medical prescribing behaviour in midwifery practice: a mixed-methods review.
  • Listening to the voices of women with a traumatic birth experience
  • It takes a village to raise a child. PATH project.
  • Non-medical prescribing behaviour in midwifery practice: a mixed-methods review.
  • PRIME-study 鈥 Prescribing In Midwifery, women鈥檚 and midwives鈥 Experiences
  • Non-medical prescribing behaviour in midwifery practice: a mixed-methods review.
  • Dutch midwives鈥 views on and experiences with woman-centred care 鈥 A Q- methodology study
  • ISeeYou project
  • Dutch midwives鈥 views on and experiences with woman-centred care 鈥 A Q- methodology study
  • Listening to the voices of women with a traumatic birth experience 鈥 an animation 鈥淪he will always remember鈥.
  • Woman-centred care 2.0
  • MEtoWE
  • Conflicting values experienced by Dutch midwives 鈥 Dilemmas of loyalty, responsibility and selfhood.
  • Woman-centered care 2.0.: Bringing the concept into focus
  • Shared-decision making about place of birth
  • Shared-decision making about place of birth
  • Advancing the concept of woman- centred care
  • Looking over the neighbour鈥檚 fence - to learn about woman-centred care from other professions
  • A Dutch midwifery research agenda
  • Midwives鈥 perceptions of influences on their behaviour of woman-centred care
  • Applying Intervention Mapping as a framework for developing an intervention to prevent maternal distress among Dutch pregnant women
  • Factors influencing maternal distress among Dutch women with a healthy pregnancy
  • Public Health in midwife-led care: Opportunities, challenges and dilemmas in antenatal management of care for Maternal Distress
  • Dutch midwives鈥 behavioural intentions of antenatal management of maternal distress and factors influencing these intentions: an exploratory survey
  • Dutch midwives鈥 behavioural intentions of antenatal management of maternal distress and factors influencing these intentions: an exploratory survey
  • Antenatal interventions to prevent or treat maternal distress: A systematic review of Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Maternal Distress - What do midwives do?
  • Primary & secondary preventive interventions for maternal distress
  • Maternal distress- What do midwives do and what motives do they have? A two-phased exploratory study
  • Less is more

 

Media Activity

  • Women's voices about their traumatic birth experience
  • Governmental hostage of pregnant women
  • Induction of Labour BBC radio 2

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Fellow Higher Education Academy
  • NMC registration Midwife
  • Registered midwife

 

Non-executive Directorship

  • WazzUp Mama Consultancy

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Mind the Gap

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer ENU Research Culture Fund 23/24
  • Reviewer journals

 

Spin-outs and Licences

  • WazzUp Mama

 

Visiting Positions

  • Academic House NHS Lothian
  • Professor of Midwifery
  • Honorary Senior Fellow

 

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Antenatal interventions to reduce maternal distress: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials

Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y., Nieuwenhuijze, M., Ausems, M., Bud茅, L., & de Vries, R. (2014)
Antenatal interventions to reduce maternal distress: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 121(4), 389-397. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.12500
Background: Maternal distress can have adverse health outcomes for mothers and their children. Antenatal interventions may reduce maternal distress. Objective: To assess the ...

Dutch midwives' behavioural intentions of antenatal management of maternal distress and factors influencing these intentions: An exploratory survey

Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y. J., Bud茅, L., Ausems, M., de Vries, R., & Nieuwenhuijze, M. J. (2014)
Dutch midwives' behavioural intentions of antenatal management of maternal distress and factors influencing these intentions: An exploratory survey. Midwifery, 30(2), 234-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2013.06.010
Objective: to explore midwives' behavioural intentions and the determinants of these intentions with regard to the management of antenatal care of women with maternal distress...

A Clinical Decision

Journal Article
Kuipers, Y. (2008)
A Clinical Decision. MIDIRS midwifery digest, 18(1), 35-38

Making the transition from 'being delivered' to 'giving birth' A literature review and reflection on the potential for introducing the UK model of 'caseload midwifery' to the Netherlands midwifery

Journal Article
Kuipers, Y. (2008)
Making the transition from 'being delivered' to 'giving birth' A literature review and reflection on the potential for introducing the UK model of 'caseload midwifery' to the Netherlands midwifery. MIDIRS midwifery digest, 17(1), 35-40
This article reviews the literature about the use of caseload midwifery based on the UK model and explores the best way to implement this into Dutch community midwifery

Introduction of a prenatal screening policy in the Netherlands and its consequences

Journal Article
Fontein, Y. (2006)
Introduction of a prenatal screening policy in the Netherlands and its consequences. MIDIRS midwifery digest, 12, 2-5

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • eMind - eMidwifery, occupational therapy & Nursing Digitalisation
  • SwAP to Care
  • PATH - PerinAtal MenTal Health
  • ENSURE - Everybody counts
  • What's Up Mama
  • Virtual Relief
  • Midwives4Mothers Woman-midwife relationships can save lives
  • SHIFT - Sexual Health In the over FourTy-fives, with attention for menopause
  • PRIME - Prescribing In MidwifEry
  • MEtoWE - Maternal life balance during transition to parenthood
  • Ups & Downs
  • ISeeYou
  • Transition to parenthood
  • Woman-centred care
  • Promoting Healthy Pregnancy 鈥 WazzUp Mama?!

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • Depressive symptoms and self and social stigma of partners of pregnant and postpartum women
  • PPD and the level of depression literacy and personal and perceived stigma among postpartum women
  • Mother knows best - Being a mother in your own right and perceptions
  • The needs, barriers and facilitators reported by midwives and nurses on eHealth usage
  • The effect of Virtual Reality during labour on pharmacological pain relief
  • Barriers and facilitators to implement a Midwifery Model of Care in Flanders
  • Self-efficacy and performance in digital adaptability among nurses and midwives
  • eMind: Digitial adaptability of midwives and nurses in Flanders - closing the gap
  • The effect of Virtual Reality during labour on women's pain perception
  • Depression-related stigma and depression literacy among postpartum women in the Netherlands
  • Maternal emotional wellbeing during transition to parenthood: the role of midwives during this journey
  • Women's personality, fear of birth and intention associated with intrapartum pain relief
  • Opinions of healthcare practitioners of midwife prescribingnon-medical
  • Prescribing behaviour of midwives
  • Women's experiences of midwife prescribing
  • Validation of the postpartum bonding questionnaire
  • Coping behaviour associated with pregnancy-related anxiety
  • Maternal emotional wellbeing up to one year postpartum
  • Woman-centred care reported by women in different sized practices
  • The value that midwifery students place on the birth stories