CORONET: Coproducing good practice for remote antenatal care

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  CORONET: COproducing good practice for RemOte aNtEnaTal care in response to the COVID-19 outbreak

• IRAS ID

  286042

• Contact name

  Lisa Hinton

• Contact email

  lisa.hinton@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Cambridge

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 5 months, 26 days

• Research summary

  Timely, personalised and safe antenatal care has a key role in ensuring optimal birth outcomes. The current COVID-19 pandemic poses challenges to delivering on defined best practice, which typically relies on face-to-face care. Remote consultations have potential in the current crisis, but there is relatively scant evidence to underpin “what good looks like” for remote antenatal care. We propose a co-produced, consensus-building approach to the design of antenatal care when face-to-face appointments may not be possible. The pandemic presents an opportunity to innovate and capture enduring learning.

  The study objectives are to:

  (1) Characterise stakeholders’ views on what works well, and why, in remote antenatal care
  (2) Coproduce, with key stakeholders, including pregnant women and their families, consensus on “what good looks like” for antenatal care when face-to-face consultations are not possible and or need to be limited.
  (3) Produce guidance in different formats
  (4) Develop an evidence-based implementation strategy
  (5) Produce enduring learning for remote antenatal care, including care provided outside pandemic conditions

  This study will combine a rapid literature review with three data collection methods (survey, interview, and consensus-building process), all of which will take place remotely – either online or over the phone. Most participants will take part in the study via the online citizen science platform, Thiscovery. A small sub-set of participants without access to the internet will take part in the survey and interviews by phone. The three methods are referred to as ‘activities’ throughout this document.

  • A survey (Activity 1)
  • An interview (Activity 2)
  • An online consensus-building exercise (Activity 3)

  The participant groups are:
  • Women and their families
  • Healthcare professionals
  • Managers and systems-level stakeholders

  This project will use network-based, purposive and convenience sampling to recruit a maximum variation sample from all participant groups for all three activities.

• REC name

  West Midlands - Coventry & Warwickshire Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  20/WM/0204

• Date of REC Opinion

  27 Jul 2020

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion