An exploration of how women in the UK perceive the provision of care received in an early pregnancy assessment unit: an interpretive phenomenological analysis.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:The objective of the study was to explore how women experience care within an early pregnancy assessment unit (EPAU) and how they are helped to understand, reconcile and make sense of their loss and make informed decisions about how their care will be managed following a first trimester miscarriage. DESIGN:This was a single centre, prospective qualitative study. An interpretive phenomenological analysis approach was used to interpret the participants' meanings of their experiences. It is an ideographic approach that focuses in depth on a small set of cases to explore how individuals make sense of a similar experience. SETTING:An EPAU in a large teaching hospital in the Midlands that provides care to women in their early pregnancy, including those experiencing pregnancy loss. PART

SUBMITTER: Norton W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6104788 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature