Bioethics in Birth Health Care: Evaluation of a Formative Proposal

Introduction and Aims. Childbirth care in the hospital environment and the institutional violence that is exercised within it, in some cases, it was already a topic of interest before the Pandemic. Nevertheless, the emergence of the pandemic of Covid-19 has been a fundamental factor of vulnerability for people, giving a new bioethical sense to the attention to pregnancy, childbirth and birth. The objective of this work is to evaluate a pilot training proposal on bioethics in birth care after the COVID-19 pandemic. Material and Methods. After conducting a focus group with experts and semi-structured interviews to midwives and women in the period from March to December 2020 the training needs were analyzed and a pilot proposal for a training program was designed. This paper presents the objectives, methodology, contents and evaluation of this training activity, directed healthcare professionals, which was carried out in May 2022. Results. The results of the evaluation of the activity show high figures of satisfaction with the training provided, and report favorably on its repetition. Likewise, the data collected point to the need for health professionals to carry out more content application activities and expansion of training in bioethics in birth care and procreation care. Discussion and Conclusions. The implementation of bioethics training for healthcare professionals and the analysis of the results of the pilot training concludes that promoting training actions in this area and submitting them to evaluation is one of the ways to promote bioethics and respect for the right to sexual health and reproductive health system users. Likewise, the analysis of the results shows that professionals claim training needs in bioethics.