Co-designing a theory-informed intervention to increase shared decision-making in maternity care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Shared decision-making (SDM) has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and is a recognized right of patients. Policy requires health services to implement SDM. However, there is limited research into what interventions work and for what reasons. The aim of the study was to develop a series of interventions to increase the use of SDM in maternity care with stakeholders.

Methods

Interventions to increase the use of SDM in the setting of pregnancy care were developed using Behaviour Change Wheel and Theoretical Domains Framework and building on findings of an in-depth qualitative study which were inductively analysed. Intervention development workshops involved co-design, with patients, clinicians, health service administrators and decision-makers, and government

SUBMITTER: Waddell A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9888748 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature