British Pakistani women's experience of perinatal loss within the UK.
Research type
Research Study
Full title
British Pakistani women’s experiences of support following a perinatal loss during the Coronavirus pandemic within the United Kingdom.
IRAS ID
297126
Contact name
Anna Chattaway
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Birmingham
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Research question
This study aims to explore British Pakistani women’s experiences of support and service appropriateness following a perinatal loss (miscarriage, termination, neonatal loss, stillbirth) within the UK healthcare service.
The study aims to include a Coronavirus pandemic focus, interviewing women who have experienced a perinatal loss during the Coronavirus pandemic (March 2020 – March 2021). However, including this focus will reduce the number of women that classify for the study and therefore inclusion of this focus will be dependent upon whether there is sufficient participant uptake from British Pakistani women who have experienced perinatal loss within the Coronavirus period.
The research aims to better understand women’s support needs to help inform services of how to provide trauma-informed care that supports women throughout these traumatic experiences.
Design
The study will employ a qualitative design, interviewing women about their experiences of perinatal loss within maternity care. Interviews will be conducted and transcribed by the Chief Investigator, Anna Chattaway. The interviews will be anonymised and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA).Participants
The research will involve interviewing approximately 8-10 women who have experienced perinatal loss within the UK healthcare service (miscarriage, stillbirth, termination, neonatal loss). Women will be interviewed on an individual basis, with interviews taking approximately 45 – 60 minutes. Research participants will be British Pakistani women, 18 years+ of age and fluent in English.
Participants will be recruited via two recruitment pathways, either through local NHS Trusts (Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals Birmingham) or non-NHS third sector organisations ('Acacia', 'Approachable Parenting', 'The Birth Trauma Association'). All NHS organisations will be research sites and all non-NHS third sector organisations ('Acacia', 'Approachable Parenting', 'The Birth Trauma Association')will be Participant Identification Centres.REC name
Social Care REC
REC reference
21/IEC08/0027
Date of REC Opinion
26 Oct 2021
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion