Developing a core outcome set for assessing interventions and care for parents after neonatal death in high-income countries (iCHOOSE Neonatal study): protocol for a mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Neonatal death exerts long-lasting impact on parents' mental health, finances and relationships, and the wider family. There is national and international momentum to evaluate interventions to support parents after the death of a baby. Core Outcome Sets (COSs) provide a minimum set of outcomes, agreed by stakeholders to be important, which should be evaluated in all studies to support evidence syntheses and identification of the most effective interventions. We aim to develop a COS for assessing interventions and care after neonatal death in high-income countries, to support future evidence syntheses and enable the identification of effective interventions and care for parents.

Methods and analysis

We will develop the COS in six phases. A parent involvement grou

SUBMITTER: Davies A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11795395 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature