Midwives and surgical nurses's preferences of method ofdelivery and influencing factors

This work is carried out as a cross-sectional description in order to evaluate the factors concerning the midwives and nurses' birth-giving preferences and its effects.The work is applied to 60 midwives and 110 nursesworking at Blacksea Technical University Farabi Hospital Department of Medicine between January and April 2021.Data is collected via "Personal Information Form" by means of interview.The questionnaire form consist of two sections and 31 questions in total.In the first section, attendants' socio-demographic characteristics, obstetric qualities, their opinions about birth-giving and their preferences of birth-giving types;in the second section attendants' birth training and the factors affecting the type of birth-giving are stated.SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences for Windows 22.0) programme is used fort he statistical analysis of the data.The results are evaluated between 95% correlation and p<0,05 significance level. Attendants were between the age range of 20-45 with the age average of 35±7,20. The ratio of preference of the vaginal birt of the attendants is %55,9. The primary reasons for the health employees to prefer the vaginal birth are negative experiences at the first cesarian birth (85.3%) and less bleeding (81.1%).Among the reasons of cesarian birth-giving preferences are such reasons like fear of birth-giving (%82.7), fear of episiotomy (%56).In the work, it is observed that, the preference of the birth-giving types of the pregnant women are effected by the factors like age, economical situation, marrital status, occupation, work experience, their working department and having children. Birth-giving type of the midwives and nurses may be affective on the pregnant women as well.Birth-giving preferences of the health employees should be followed carefully, they should be informed continually and it should be kept in mind that they are taken as role models. Key words: Midwife, nurse, Cesarian Birth, Vaginal Birth, Birth Preference.