BUMP Survey
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Current prevalence of self-monitoring of blood pressure during pregnancy
IRAS ID
226867
Contact name
Richard McManus
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Oxford University
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 7 months, 1 days
Research summary
This research is part of a wider programme of work to explore whether asking women to monitor their own blood pressure and urine during pregnancy, in addition to usual antenatal measurements taken by health care professionals, can improve the detection of raised blood pressure (hypertension) and pre-eclampsia.
We look to recruit pregnant women from ante-natal clinics across England. The main aim of this study is to find out how many women currently measure their own blood pressure during pregnancy. Related to this, we want to understand the likely quality of the readings, by finding out how many are using monitors known to be accurate in pregnancy, how old are the monitors they are using are, and how often (and how regularly) they are measuring their blood pressure, how many readings they are taking each time they measure their blood pressure, what time of day they take their readings.
We will also ask whether women are sharing their readings with doctors and midwives, and how confident they feel themselves that they are accurately measuring their own blood pressure.
Finally, we will ask women relevant questions about themselves (e.g. their age, whether they are hypertensive, whether they have any of the specific risk factors for pre-eclampsia) to ensure we have a representative sample.
This will all be done by a questionnaire which will take the women about 10 minutes t complete. The study is funded by the NIHR.REC name
South West - Cornwall & Plymouth Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/SW/0296
Date of REC Opinion
15 Dec 2017
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion