Highlights
- Midwifery students:
- observe both, midwives and physicians, perpetrating violence towards labouring women.
- suffer because of their experiences with symptoms of acute and posttraumatic stress.
- consider dropping out of training due to their experiences and distress.
- may need access to professional support to cope with the experiences.
- Low-intervention births/individual care may reduce violence towards labouring women.
- Communication plays a key role in avoiding violence towards labouring women.