Good clinical practice and guidance recommends that women have full choice and autonomy with regards to their labour. In order to facilitate this, it is vital that women are armed with key information points as to what decisions may lead to or entail. A lack of information prior to childbirth can contribute to poorer birth experiences by increasing anxieties with ‘fear of the unknown’.
Existing work looks at the important outcomes to measure in clinical trials of induction of labour (https://www.comet-initiative.org/Studies/Details/695) and ongoing work is looking at outcomes to measure in all obstetric trials (https://www.comet-initiative.org/Studies/Details/1719). But less has been done to understand what information women want to receive about induction of labour prior to deciding whether to proceed with the interventions. This will complement our ongoing existing work developing a core information set about vaginal birth (https://www.comet-initiative.org/Studies/Details/2069).
With this study, will develop a core information set for induction of labour. This will guide the baseline information which should be shared with women when discussing these interventions, and act as the foundation for further discussions on the topics that are important to each individual patient.
Abi Merriel, University of Liverpool
Options collaborative working group
Disease Category: Pregnancy & childbirth
Disease Name: Childbirth, Induction of labour, Vaginal birth
Age Range: 16 - 65
Sex: Female
Nature of Intervention: Procedure
- Charities
- Clinical experts
- Families
- Patient/ support group representatives
- Policy makers
- Researchers
- Service commissioners
- Service providers
- Service users
- Core information set
- Consensus meeting
- Delphi process
- Literature review
- Survey
- Systematic review
1) scoping review of systematic reviews and patient information leaflets to establish which outcomes are currently considered inportant
2) secondary analysis of existing qualitative data collected by our group
3) online survey of stakeholders for information points
4) Development of Delphi
5) think aloud interviews
6) 2 round Delphi Process
7) consensus meetings