Examining the Professional Belongings of Midwives
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Midwifery, Ownership, Professional Identification, Social SupportAbstract
Purpose: The sense of belonging to a profession positively affects the job satisfaction of the individual. This study was carried out to determine the professional midwifery belonging of midwives.
Materials and Methods: This research is descriptive and was conducted between 01 November 2022 and 01 December 2022. The universe of the research consists of midwives working in a city hospital within the borders of Istanbul Province. The sample of the study consists of 153 actively working midwives, who were created using the simple random sampling method, one of the probability sampling methods. The data were collected using what the Personal Information Form and the Midwifery Belonging Scale to determine their professional affiliation.
Results: The mean age of the midwives participating in the study was 26.89±4.03 and 93.5% (n=143) were undergraduate graduates. The midwifery belonging scale total score of the midwives was 90.2±15.73. A statistically significant difference was found between midwives' preference for the midwifery profession, being supported by their family and friends, and following the current literature and the midwifery belonging scale (p<.005). There was a statistically significant and strongly positive linear relationship between the midwifery belonging scale total score average and emotional belonging total scores (r=,895, p<.001). It was found that there was a statistically significant and strong positive linear relationship between the total score of midwifery belonging scale and the total scores of fulfilling professional roles and responsibilities (r=,779, p<.001).
Conclusion: Midwives included in the study had a high sense of belonging to midwifery and there was a relationship between the reasons for choosing the midwifery profession, the support of their family or friends to be a midwife, the current literature and the sense of belonging to midwifery.
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