Investigating the benefits and challenges of including bereaved women in research: a multifaceted perinatal audit in a socially disadvantaged French district.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe experiences including interviews with bereaved women in a clinical audit.

Design

The data come from an audit of all stillbirths and neonatal deaths at ≥22 weeks of gestation in Seine-Saint-Denis, a disadvantaged French district in 2014. We included bereaved women using a questionnaire that also contained open-ended questions administered in an interview format by a midwife-investigator several weeks after the death. The study included a referral protocol for bereaved women with unmet needs revealed during the interviews. A psychological support for the three midwife-investigators was set-up, in the form of a support group.

Setting

The 11 maternity hospitals in the district.

Participants

218 women (227 deaths).

Analyses

Data come fr

SUBMITTER: Sauvegrain P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7513560 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature