Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Gwich'in Settlement Area, Sahtu Settlement Area, Dehcho Region, North Slave Region, South Slave Region
Tags: health, social sciences, maternity care, women's health, pregnancy
| Principal Investigator: | Klein, Michael C (1) |
| Licence Number: | 14347 |
| Organization: | University of British Columbia |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2006
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| Issued: | May 12, 2008 |
| Project Team: | William Donald Fraser (Co-Principal Investigator, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Université de Montréal), Janusz Kaczorowski (Co-Principal Investigator, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University), Robert Liston (Co-Investigator, Obstetrics and Gyn, University of British Columbia), Wendy Hall (Co-Investigator, University of British Columbia, School of Nursing), Sharon Dore (Co-Investigator , McMaster University), Patricia McNiven (Co-Investigator , Midwifery, Family Medicine, McMaster University), Lee Saxell (Co-Investigator , Midwifery, Children's and Women's Hospital), Jude Kornelsen (Co-Investigator , Department of Family Practice, UBC), Kathleen A. Lindstrom (Co-Investigator, Health Sciences, Douglas College), Rollin Brant (Co-Investigator , Centre for Community Child Health Research) |
Objective(s): The objective of this study is to determine the attitudes and beliefs of urban and rural maternity care providers (obstetricians, family physicians, nurses, midwives, doulas) and pregnant women in urban and rural regions of Canada toward central concepts in maternity care.
Project Description: , which was submitted in August 2006. The application has been distributed for consultation, concerns have been addressed, and the application was approved by the community organizations and received ethics approval. The licence was not issued at the time. The study will only be conducted now in 2008. The objective of this study is to determine the attitudes and beliefs of urban and rural maternity care providers (obstetricians, family physicians, nurses, midwives, doulas) and pregnant women in urban and rural regions of Canada toward central concepts in maternity care. The methodology for the current phase of this study consists in recruiting pregnant women with their first baby. Pregnant women with their first baby will be encouraged to participate in this study by filling out either an online or a paper questionnaire. The researchers will send a handful of study recruitment posters to Stanton Territorial Hospital, where pregnant women may be able to see them and decide whether they are eligible and willing to participate. Attached to their bilingual posters are “take-away bookmarks”, which contain information on this study and the link to the online questionnaire. The survey is available online at: www.maternitycare.ca/women (in English) and at www.maternitycare.ca/femmes (in French). There is also a toll free number for women to call to request a paper survey or to ask questions about the study. The bookmarks have been designed to be torn off the poster (like a pad of paper). The posters just need to be pinned to the wall. Ideally, pregnant women with their first baby (as clearly advertised in the poster) will take a bookmark from the poster, and go to the link advertised on the bookmark in order to fill out the web-based questionnaire. All submissions are confidential. The researchers anticipate that the posters will be up for 8 to 16 weeks. The Registered Nurses Association of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (RANT/NU), Stanton Yellowknife Hospital and local nurses, midwives, physician, obstetricians, expectant mothers, and doulas would be involved in the quantitative portions of this study by answering surveys or disseminating surveys. For the qualitative portion of this survey, the researchers would involve these parties in discussion groups where they would have the opportunity to discuss their attitudes and beliefs about maternity care. Fieldwork will be conducted from May 12 to September 30, 2008. For this study, the researchers will only be recruiting pregnant women living and/or receiving maternity care within the Stanton Territory Health Authority; specifically, they will send a handful of research study posters to the Stanton Territorial Hospital located in the city of Yellowknife.
