Bereavement care education and training in clinical practice: Supporting the development of confidence in student midwives

•Student midwives participation in a Training Workshop on Bereavement Care helps to increase their confidence to provide bereavement care.•Student midwives participation in the Workshop on Bereavement Care helps to increase student midwives self-awareness in their practice.•The Workshop is an effective educational intervention for student midwives that can be modified for use with other professions. To improve the confidence in student Midwives to provide bereavement careto parents following pregnancy loss and perinatal death. The one-day interactive Educational Training Workshop in Bereavement Care (ETWBC) was developed for student midwives in their final year of their B.Sc. Midwifery Degree Programme and those completing a Higher Diploma in Midwifery to help improve their confidence to provide bereavement care in clinical practice. A longitudinal sequential mixed-methods design was used to evaluate the outcome and processes of participation in the Workshop. This paper reports on the outcome evaluation. Participants completed the study questionnaires at all 3 time points: pre/post workshop and 3 month follow-up. Thirty nine of the 41 student midwives (Higher Diploma and 4th year B.Sc.) participated in the workshop. 97.44% (n = 38) of the participants completed all the questionnaires. Participation in the ETWBC increased student's midwives confidence (measured using knowledge and skills scales); Bereavement support skills [F(2,72) = 21.150, p