“…The difficulties faced in providing care are consistent with the results of studies conducted in other western countries among midwives or other maternity care providers. These studies also reported communication problems (Goberna-Tricas et al, 2005;Lyberg et al, 2012;Lyons et al, 2008;Ng and Newbold, 2011), limited knowledge of the healthcare system (Puthussery et al, 2008), family involvement (Puthussery et al, 2008) and preference for physicians (Ng and Newbold, 2011). Studies conducted among other health professionals have also reported communication problems (Hultsjö and Hjelm, 2005;Murphy and Macleod-Clark, 1993;Priebe et al, 2011), lack of knowledge of the healthcare system (Priebe et al, 2011) and social deprivation (Priebe et al, 2011) as issues when caring for nonwestern clients.…”