Regions: South Slave Region
Tags: health, maternity care, midwifery
Principal Investigator: | Janssen, Patricia A (4) |
Licence Number: | 16069 |
Organization: | School of Population and Public Health - University of British Columbia |
Licensed Year(s): |
2017
2014
2013
2012
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Issued: | Mar 31, 2017 |
Project Team: | Caitlin Frame |
Objective(s): To compare the outcomes from the perinatal database at the Fort Smith midwifery service (2005-2012) to the outcomes of women using the midwifery services in Nunavik (2005-2012) and to women who transferred from Hay River to Yellowknife to deliver their babies.
Project Description: The objective is to compare the outcomes from the perinatal database at the Fort Smith midwifery service (2005-2012) to the outcomes of women using the midwifery services in Nunavik (2005-2012) and to women who transferred from Hay River to Yellowknife to deliver their babies. These outcomes include data pertaining to utilization of the maternity service by the women in the community, perinatal outcomes, and transfer rates. Using a retrospective cohort study design, outcomes from over 300 women who have been cared for during peripartal period at the midwifery service in Fort Smith will be compared to the database of birth outcomes in Nunavik and Yellowknife (transfers from Hay River). The research team will examine socio-demographic variables such as age, marital status, and parity for their role as confounders in the analysis and adjust using multivariate logistic regression. The team will compute odds ratios and thei... Show more