Research project
Title: Informed Choice in Maternity Care: An Evaluation of Evidence Based Leaflets
Project timescale: From 01 September, 1997 to 01 March, 2000
(Added to website on: 26 April, 2001 - Date last updated: 11 February, 2013)
Source of funding:
Department of Health through the York Centre for Dissemination and Reviews.
Aims: To evaluate a set of evidence based leaflets on childbearing women's perceptions of informed choice.
Research designs used:
Randomised controlled trial
Other: Ethnography
Methods used to collect data:
Interviews
Questionnaire survey
Observation
Other (please specify): Measures of knowledge, Economic appraisal, Telephone survey
Research project description: Methods including: 1. Quantitative (questionnaire survey of 6,500 antenatal and postnatal women). 2. Qualitative (observations and in-depth interviews of childbearing women and health professionals; focus groups with post-natal women) Setting: NHS hospital and community settings; women's homes
Stages at which the public were involved:
Disseminating research
Other: Piloting the questionnaires. Reading and commenting on interim reports and other papers.
Description of public involvement in research stages: - participants in the research; - members of the advisory group; - reading draft copies of work in progress.
Training and support provided for either members of the public or researchers involved in the project:
Examples of ways the public have made a difference to the research project: - Kept the focus of the research team on issues of concern to childbearing women. - Alerted us to the particular needs of women from minority groups.
Evaluating the impact of public involvement in the research:
Details of publications or reports resulting from the research: Kirkham M and Stapleton H (eds) Informed choice in maternity care: an evaluation of evidence based leaflets. (University of York:NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, 2001, CRDpub@York.ac.uk). Stapleton H (2000) the MIDIRS Informed Choice leaflets in clinical practice MIDIRS Midwifery digest 10(3): 388 -392
Links to Reports:
Was/is your project user controlled: Not Known
For further information on the project, please contact:
Ms Helen Stapleton
Lead Researcher
University of Sheffield ( W.1.C.H.)
Midwifery Research, Room 420
The Jessop Wing
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Sheffield
S10 2SF
h.stapleton@sheffield.ac.uk
0114 226 1070
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