Dear Sir or Madam,

My name is Mara Bardac, and I am a medical student at the University of Bonn. As part of my doctoral dissertation at the Department of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine at the University Hospital of Bonn, I am conducting a Germany-wide survey on the current state of knowledge and expectations regarding peripartum pain management. The project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Brigitte Strizek and Dr. Jorge Jimenez Cruz.

In our survey, we are comparing the perspectives of various groups involved in peripartum care. We are currently still seeking participants from the midwifery group. Would it be possible to forward the link to our anonymous survey to the midwives affiliated with your midwifery center?

Survey: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/Kenntnisse_zur_Schmerztherapie_unter_Geburt

I would greatly appreciate your support.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Mara Bardac

Ph.D. candidate, University of Bonn

Dear midwives,

My name is Nele Engler, and I am studying midwifery science in my 7th trimester at the Fachhochschule des Mittelstands (FHM) in Hanover.

The aim of my research project is to show the emotional strain that midwives experience when caring for stillbirths and to find out what strategies they use to deal with it.

Caring for stillbirths can be an intense psychological and emotional challenge for midwives. They are faced with the task of supporting grieving parents and at the same time processing their own emotions. This often leads to stress and exhaustion. It is therefore important to deal with this burden more intensively and to develop support strategies. This survey is intended to contribute to this.

This questionnaire is aimed exclusively at trained midwives. The survey comprises 11 questions and takes a maximum of 10 minutes to complete. Your answers will be collected anonymously and treated in strict confidence. The link to the survey.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by e-mail .

Thank you for your participation!

Nele Engler