Dear Consumers Supporting Midwifery Care,
Are you pregnant?
Help researchers in the UBC Department of Psychiatry learn more about women’s childbirth concerns! If you are pregnant and 18 years or older, you are eligible to participate.
Participation requires 1.0 to 1.5 hours of your time and involves an online survey and a brief telephone interview. You will be asked about your background, reproductive history, current pregnancy, mood, feelings about childbirth as well as any history of sexual abuse or trauma.
With this research, we will assess the validity of a new screening tool for fear of childbirth, and explore the relationship between fear of childbirth, and mental health, history of trauma and symptoms of post-traumatic stress. We hope to create educational materials using the study results.
Register for the study at: survey.ubc.ca/s/childbirth-fear-study-intake/.
See the study Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ChildbirthFearStudy.
UBC Perinatal Anxiety Lab site: http://parlab.med.ubc.ca.
Please see the PDF summarizing the study and feel free to share the study.
Thank you,
Rebecca Ferguson
UBC Perinatal Anxiety Lab
Room 209-2400 Arbutus Rd
Queen Alexandra Centre for Children’s Health
Victoria, BC, V8N 1V7
Phone: (250) 519-5390, ext. 36439
Dear Consumers Supporting Midwifery Care,
You are being invited to participate in a research study that examines Ontario’s response to maternity care needs through midwifery. Specifically you are being invited to participate in an interview about how the Ontario health system has assigned roles to midwifery. Your involvement would mean participating in a 30-60 minute in person or telephone interview to be scheduled at your convenience. During the interview, we will ask you questions about one or two policy directions of interest: 1) the creation of two midwifery-led birth centres in 2014 and/or 2) the recent primary care reform discussion paper (Patients first: a proposal to strengthen patient-centred health care in Ontario), which does not explicitly include midwives as part of the reform. You will be asked about what factors led to the creation of these policies, what stakeholders were involved in the decision-making process, what are the goals of the policies and (if applicable) what are the results being achieved.
Please see a letter of information that gives you full details about the study along with a consent form. If you would like to participate or have questions about the study before you make a decision, please contact Cristina Mattison (see contact details below).
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
Kind regards,
Cristina A. Mattison, MSc
Doctoral Candidate
Health Policy
McMaster Health Forum’s Impact Lab
1280 Main St. West, CRL-209
Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1, Canada
Have you experienced mental health concerns in pregnancy or after your baby’s birth? Are you a health care provider who provides care to pregnant or postpartum women? Volunteers are needed for research project through the Midwifery Group of Ottawa and the Ottawa Birth & Wellness Centre: here’s more information for health care providers and women. Participants must be over 18 years of age. Study is starting October 2015.
Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America by Kenneth C Johnson, senior epidemiologist, Betty-Anne Daviss, project manager, published in BMJ 2005;330:1416 (18 June).
The objective: To evaluate the safety of home births in North America involving direct entry midwives, in jurisdictions where the practice is not well integrated into the healthcare system.
Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives
