Partners in birth
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Partners in birth: empowering women to achieve physiological birth with reduced obstetric interventions.
IRAS ID
241271
Contact name
Gill Perks
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Barking Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 9 months, 30 days
Research summary
This innovation will deliver a pioneering programme of antenatal education specifically designed to increase physiological birth and reduce obstetric interventions by providing information that a woman and her birth partner will find helpful in making choices, and empower them to positively influence their birth experience. The class aims to educate and motivate expectant parents to be informed and become active participants in the birth process.
The study site is Barking, Havering and Redbridge university Trust and the class will be offered to all first time mothers who have good comprehension of the English language between 32-40 weeks of pregnancy.
It is intended for the study period to be February 2018-May 2018. All women are currently offered antenatal classes as part of their standard antenatal care package. This will remain the case.
All women and their partners that are first time parents will be offered the opportunity to participate in the study. Due to the high demand of antenatal classes at present we will use a quasi- experimental design with purposeful sampling. The women that attend antenatal education will form Group A and the women that decline/do not attend will form Group B.
23 clinical and two qualitative outcomes related to labour, birth will be measured and compared between the 2 groups.
All outcomes are currently recorded on the standard Trust database, informed consent will be obtained from all participants to access this information for the purpose of the study.
REC name
London - Bromley Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/LO/0222
Date of REC Opinion
28 Feb 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion