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Investigating the benefits and challenges of including bereaved women in research: a multifaceted perinatal audit in a socially disadvantaged French district
OBJECTIVES: To describe experiences including interviews with bereaved women in a clinical audit. DESIGN: The data come from an audit of all stillbirths and neonatal deaths at ≥22 weeks of gestation in Seine-Saint-Denis, a disadvantaged French district in 2014. We included bereaved women using a que...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7513560/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32967867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034715 |
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description | OBJECTIVES: To describe experiences including interviews with bereaved women in a clinical audit. DESIGN: The data come from an audit of all stillbirths and neonatal deaths at ≥22 weeks of gestation in Seine-Saint-Denis, a disadvantaged French district in 2014. We included bereaved women using a questionnaire that also contained open-ended questions administered in an interview format by a midwife-investigator several weeks after the death. The study included a referral protocol for bereaved women with unmet needs revealed during the interviews. A psychological support for the three midwife-investigators was set-up, in the form of a support group. SETTING: The 11 maternity hospitals in the district. PARTICIPANTS: 218 women (227 deaths). ANALYSES: Data come from medical records, maternal interviews, the reviews of the audit’s expert panel and written narratives of their experiences provided by the midwife-investigators. Quantitative data were analysed statistically, and qualitative data thematically. RESULTS: One-third (75) of the women agreed to an interview, but acceptance ranged from 6% to 60% by maternity unit. Characteristics of respondents and non-respondents were similar. Members of the audit’s expert panel reported that 41% of the interviews contained new information relevant to their assessment. Of the women interviewed, 35% were referred to a medical professional, psychologist or social worker. Midwife-investigators’ experiences illustrated the benefits of a support group with three main themes identified: improving their interactions with bereaved women as well as medical teams and protecting their psychological well-being. CONCLUSION: These results showed that including interviews with bereaved women in audit designs was feasible and provided valuable information on women’s care and social circumstances that were not available in medical records. They also highlight the importance of implementing referral protocols for the bereaved women, used in over one-third of cases, as well as providing support for study investigators. |
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spelling | pubmed-75135602020-10-05 Investigating the benefits and challenges of including bereaved women in research: a multifaceted perinatal audit in a socially disadvantaged French district Sauvegrain, Priscille Zeitlin, Jennifer BMJ Open Obstetrics and Gynaecology OBJECTIVES: To describe experiences including interviews with bereaved women in a clinical audit. DESIGN: The data come from an audit of all stillbirths and neonatal deaths at ≥22 weeks of gestation in Seine-Saint-Denis, a disadvantaged French district in 2014. We included bereaved women using a questionnaire that also contained open-ended questions administered in an interview format by a midwife-investigator several weeks after the death. The study included a referral protocol for bereaved women with unmet needs revealed during the interviews. A psychological support for the three midwife-investigators was set-up, in the form of a support group. SETTING: The 11 maternity hospitals in the district. PARTICIPANTS: 218 women (227 deaths). ANALYSES: Data come from medical records, maternal interviews, the reviews of the audit’s expert panel and written narratives of their experiences provided by the midwife-investigators. Quantitative data were analysed statistically, and qualitative data thematically. RESULTS: One-third (75) of the women agreed to an interview, but acceptance ranged from 6% to 60% by maternity unit. Characteristics of respondents and non-respondents were similar. Members of the audit’s expert panel reported that 41% of the interviews contained new information relevant to their assessment. Of the women interviewed, 35% were referred to a medical professional, psychologist or social worker. Midwife-investigators’ experiences illustrated the benefits of a support group with three main themes identified: improving their interactions with bereaved women as well as medical teams and protecting their psychological well-being. CONCLUSION: These results showed that including interviews with bereaved women in audit designs was feasible and provided valuable information on women’s care and social circumstances that were not available in medical records. They also highlight the importance of implementing referral protocols for the bereaved women, used in over one-third of cases, as well as providing support for study investigators. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7513560/ /pubmed/32967867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034715 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Obstetrics and Gynaecology Sauvegrain, Priscille Zeitlin, Jennifer Investigating the benefits and challenges of including bereaved women in research: a multifaceted perinatal audit in a socially disadvantaged French district |
title | Investigating the benefits and challenges of including bereaved women in research: a multifaceted perinatal audit in a socially disadvantaged French district |
title_full | Investigating the benefits and challenges of including bereaved women in research: a multifaceted perinatal audit in a socially disadvantaged French district |
title_fullStr | Investigating the benefits and challenges of including bereaved women in research: a multifaceted perinatal audit in a socially disadvantaged French district |
title_full_unstemmed | Investigating the benefits and challenges of including bereaved women in research: a multifaceted perinatal audit in a socially disadvantaged French district |
title_short | Investigating the benefits and challenges of including bereaved women in research: a multifaceted perinatal audit in a socially disadvantaged French district |
title_sort | investigating the benefits and challenges of including bereaved women in research: a multifaceted perinatal audit in a socially disadvantaged french district |
topic | Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7513560/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32967867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034715 |
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