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Improving prenatal care during lockdown: Comparing telehealth and in-person care for low-risk pregnant women in the PROTECT pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

to compare telehealth and in-person care during the COVID-19 lockdown in a population of low-risk pregnant women for prenatal care received and perinatal outcome.

Methods

This single-center study began during the first French lockdown in 2020. Women with at least one telehealth (remote) prenatal care visit were compared with those who received care only in person. Data include results from self-administered surveys and perinatal outcomes. The main outcome was the prenatal care experience, assessed by the 5-point Quality of Prenatal Care Questionnaire (QPCQ) score. Exploratory analyses sought to identify connections between perinatal outcomes and any of their levels of QPCQ score, health/eHealth literacy, stress, and social deprivation scores .

Results

The experimental group included 55 women and the control group 52. Maternal and neonatal outcomes were similar in both groups. The mean QPCQ scores did not support any difference between the mothers' experience of prenatal care in each group: 4.15±0.52 in the telehealth and 4.26±0.63 in the in-person groups. Similarly, levels of social deprivation, stress, and health and eHealth literacy did not differ between the groups.

Conclusion

Regardless of social deprivation or literacy level, both telehealth and in-person monitoring appeared to provide equivalent and good-quality prenatal care experiences during the pandemic, ClinicalTrial.gov registration NCT04368832 (30^th April 2020).

SUBMITTER: Avercenc L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9364754 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Improving prenatal care during lockdown: Comparing telehealth and in-person care for low-risk pregnant women in the PROTECT pilot study.

Avercenc Léonore L Ngueyon Sime Willy W Bertholdt Charline C Baumont Sophie S Freitas Andréia Carvalho de AC Morel Olivier O Guillemin Francis F Ambroise Grandjean Gaëlle G

Journal of gynecology obstetrics and human reproduction 20220724 9

<h4>Objective</h4>to compare telehealth and in-person care during the COVID-19 lockdown in a population of low-risk pregnant women for prenatal care received and perinatal outcome.<h4>Methods</h4>This single-center study began during the first French lockdown in 2020. Women with at least one telehealth (remote) prenatal care visit were compared with those who received care only in person. Data include results from self-administered surveys and perinatal outcomes. The main outcome was the prenata ...[more]

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Improving prenatal care during lockdown: Comparing telehealth and in-person care for low-risk pregnant women in the PROTECT pilot study.

Objective

Methods

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