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

November 13, 2018 updated by: University of Southampton

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

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed 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.

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

24

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

Female

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

pregnant women or women that have given birth within the last two years

Description

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

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Observational Models: Cohort
  • Time Perspectives: Retrospective

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Semi-structured interviews
Time Frame: 1 year
1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of Southampton

Collaborators

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

February 1, 2016

Primary Completion (Actual)

August 31, 2017

Study Completion (Actual)

August 31, 2017

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 14, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 2, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

May 5, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

November 14, 2018

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 13, 2018

Last Verified

November 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 20007

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

No

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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