Project 20: Midwives' insight into continuity of care models for women with social risk factors: what works, for whom, in what circumstances, and how.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Continuity of care models are known to improve clinical outcomes for women and their babies, but it is not understood how. A realist synthesis of how women with social risk factors experience UK maternity care reported mechanisms thought to improve clinical outcomes and experiences. As part of a broader programme of work to test those theories and fill gaps in the literature base we conducted focus groups with midwives working within continuity of care models of care for women with social factors that put them at a higher chance of having poor birth outcomes. These risk factors can include poverty and social isolation, asylum or refugee status, domestic abuse, mental illness, learning difficulties, and substance abuse problems.

Objective

To explore the insights

SUBMITTER: Rayment-Jones H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7233135 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature