Experiences of pregnant women and healthcare professionals of participating in a digital antenatal CMV education intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The study aimed to explore the perspectives of participating pregnant women and Health Care Professionals (HCPs) towards receiving and providing cytomegalovirus (CMV) education so that barriers and facilitators towards incorporating CMV in routine antenatal care could be better understood.

Design

This process evaluation phase employed a qualitative design using individual, semi-structured, face-to-face interviews.

Setting

Recruitment and interviews took place within a large teaching hospital from an ethnically diverse area of South-west London PARTICIPANTS: The study sample included 20 participants: 15 pregnant women, and five HCPs. All participants were involved in a single centre randomized controlled trial of a digital CMV educational intervention in preg

SUBMITTER: Montague A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8850414 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature