Group versus conventional antenatal care for women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antenatal care is one of the key preventive health services used around the world. In most Western countries, antenatal care traditionally involves a schedule of one-to-one visits with a care provider. A different way of providing antenatal care involves use of a group model.

Objectives

1. To compare the effects of group antenatal care versus conventional antenatal care on psychosocial, physiological, labour and birth outcomes for women and their babies.2. To compare the effects of group antenatal care versus conventional antenatal care on care provider satisfaction.

Search methods

We searched the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group's Trials Register (31 October 2014), contacted experts in the field and reviewed the reference lists of retrieved studies.

SUBMITTER: Catling CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6465187 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature