How do women with social risk factors experience United Kingdom maternity care? A realist synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Echoing international trends, the most recent United Kingdom reports of infant and maternal mortality found that pregnancies to women with social risk factors are over 50% more likely to end in stillbirth or neonatal death and carry an increased risk of premature birth and maternal death. The aim of this realist synthesis was to uncover the mechanisms that affect women's experiences of maternity care.

Methods

Using realist methodology, 22 papers exploring how women with a wide range of social risk factors experience maternity care in the United Kingdom were included. The data extraction process identified contexts (C), mechanisms (M), and outcomes (0).

Results

Three themes, Resources, Relationships, and Candidacy, overarched eight CMO configurations. Access

SUBMITTER: Rayment-Jones H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6771833 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature