Parent's Perspective on Continuity of Care in the Maternity Care and Child Health Services Continuum: A Qualitative Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

While the World Health Organization (WHO) advocates organizing maternity care and preventive child healthcare (PCHC) as people-centred, integrated healthcare services, globally these services are often established separately, causing discontinuity of care. Our aim is to synthesize the evidence concerning what impacts parents' experience of continuity of care, and how to promote it.

Methods

Qualitative systematic review. Embase, Medline, Web of Science, Cochrane, CINAHL and Google Scholar were searched for studies on parents' perspectives on integrated care. Helpful practices and issues regarding continuity of care were identified.

Results

We found that parents valued easily accessible, tailored, family-centred care that is a display of interprofessional c

SUBMITTER: Hermans ACM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11758814 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature