PEACH - Postbirth Enhanced Access to Contraception in Hospital

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Feasibility, acceptability and impact of a specialist postbirth contraception service to facilitate access to immediate postbirth contraception.

• IRAS ID

  329225

• Contact name

  Sneha Basude

• Contact email

  sneha.basude@uhbw.nhs.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  University Hospital Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 5 months, 13 days

• Research summary

  Guidance published in 2020 by the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives recommends that contraceptive counselling should be available to women during pregnancy and that contraception, should be easily accessible immediately after giving birth. To address this, we have designed a novel specialist postbirth contraception service called PEACH (postbirth enhanced access to contraception in hospital) which is embedded into maternity services in Bristol.

  This study will evaluate the impact of the PEACH service. It will assess the impact, feasibility and acceptability in order to identify what does and doesn’t work, to improve the future design and delivery of the intervention. The evaluation outputs will also strengthen the postbirth contraception knowledge base for other services to provide a similar service.

  The evaluation consists of the following four elements and recruitment will run over 3 months
  1) Survey of women on the postnatal ward
  2) Electronic pharmacy database review of contraception methods dispensed to postnatal ward
  3) Semi-structured interviews with postnatal women
  4) Focus groups with maternity staff

  The evaluation aims to find out whether:
  The PEACH service increases immediate access to postbirth contraception (within 7 days of birth) in a real clinical setting.
  The PEACH approach is acceptable and feasible for the health professionals working in maternity services to support and deliver.
  The women attending maternity services feel that the PEACH service is acceptable to them.

• REC name

  East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 2

• REC reference

  24/ES/0082

• Date of REC Opinion

  10 Dec 2024

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion