Confident Birthing: What Influences Women's Confidence for Birth?

Pregnancy Clinical Trial

Official title:

Confident Birthing: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Influences on Women's Confidence for Birth During Pregnancy and Labour

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03141320
• Other study ID #: 20007
• Status: Completed
• Start date: February 1, 2016
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: November 2018
• Source: University of Southampton
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a grounded theory study aiming to understand women's perception of what influences their confidence for birth during labour and birth. Data is being collected using interviews and social media sources.

Description:

This study aims to help women have a better birth experience, by trying to understand what a 'confident birth' means to women during pregnancy and labour. Results from a recent service evaluation at a local NHS Trust, exploring a new programme designed to enhance women's birth experience, highlighted the importance of understanding women's confidence for birth. A significant number of pregnant women that attended the course (19.5%) felt 'not at all confident' for birth. The service evaluation results also suggested that confidence for birth is an important influence of enhancing birth experience.

There is some research that suggests that if women's confidence for birth can be improved, then she may be less fearful of birth and have experience less labour pain. However, very little is known about what women consider to be a 'confident birth' and who or what they feel influences their confidence. If maternity services are able to understand this, this could possibly lead to the development of tools and strategies to help women to feel more confident for giving birth.

This is a qualitative study that involves two methods of data collection: interviews and social media. Women that are pregnant or have recently given birth will be interviewed to explore who or what they feel has influenced their confidence for birth. The interviews will last for about one and a half hours. The location for interview is flexible and women can be interviewed in their own home. In addition to this, approximately 500 messages posted on a large UK parenting website about confidence for birth will also be analysed.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 24
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: August 31, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• given birth within the last two years or are pregnant

• consider themselves well enough to take part in the study

• have received maternity care from specific NHS Trust

Exclusion Criteria:

• under 18 years old

• have not received maternity care from specific NHS Trust

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Birth
• Labour
• Pregnancy
• Psychosocial Wellbeing
• Woman's Health

Intervention

Other:
• Interview/observation of social media comments
Interview with pregnant or postnatal women and observation of relevant social media comments

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Southampton	Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Semi-structured interviews		1 year