ASPIRE COVID-19 Work Package 2: Babies Born Better Survey, United Kingdom and the Netherlands, 2020

Thomson, G and Balaam, MC and van den Berg, LMM and Akooji, N and de Jonge, A and Topalidou, A and Downe, S (2022). ASPIRE COVID-19 Work Package 2: Babies Born Better Survey, United Kingdom and the Netherlands, 2020. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Service. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-855862

UK policy is for safe, personalised maternity care. However, during COVID-19 tests and visits have been reduced in some places, and some women with worrying symptoms are not going to hospital. Other places are trying new solutions, including remote access technologies. Some Trusts have reduced community maternity services, including home and birthcentre births; barred birth companions in early labour; and separated mothers, babies, and partners during labour, and in neonatal units. There are reports of women giving birth at home without professional help, possibly due to fear of infection, or of family separation. In contrast, the Netherlands has a policy of increased community maternity services during COVID-19. We want to find out how best to provide care for mothers, babies, and partners during and after a pandemic. We will look at what documents and national leads say about service organisation in the UK and the Netherlands, and at women's and parents experiences. We will also look in detail at what happened in 8 UK Trusts during the pandemic. We will find out how their services have been organised during COVID-19, what parents and staff think, and what the outcomes are, including infections. We will then share the findings with key stakeholders to agree a final organisational model that can be used to ensure safe, personalised routine and crisis maternity care, now, and in future. This will include useful resources and links relating to innovative best practices that we find out about during the study.

Data description (abstract)

This is a collection of data undertaken by the members of Work Package 2 (WP2), of the ASPIRE COVID-19 project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), as part of UK Research and Innovation’s rapid response to COVID-19 [grant number ES/V004581/1]. The collection contains two datasets: 1) Anonymised Babies Born Better survey responses (quantitative only) recorded between 18th June 2020 and December 31st 2020 for women who gave birth to their most recent baby between 2017 and December 2020 in the UK and the Netherlands(available under standard Safeguarded access); 2) Anonymised Babies Born Better survey responses (qualitative only) recorded between 18th June 2020 and December 31st 2020 for women who gave birth to their most recent baby between 2017 and December 2020 in the UK and the Netherlands (available under Permission Only Saefguarded access).

Data creators:
Creator Name Affiliation ORCID (as URL)
Thomson G University of Central Lancashire https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3392-8182
Balaam MC University of Central Lancashire https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-7352
van den Berg LMM Amsterdam University Medical Centre https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5169-0326
Akooji N University of Central Lancashire https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8254-3257
de Jonge A Amsterdam University Medical Centre https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5384-3744
Topalidou A University of Central Lancashire https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0280-6801
Downe S University of Central Lancashire https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2848-2550
Sponsors: ESRC
Grant reference: ES/V004581/1
Topic classification: Health
Keywords: COVID-19, MATERNITY CARE, PLACE OF BIRTH, PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH
Project title: ASPIRE-COVID-19: Achieving Safe and Personalised maternity care In Response to Epidemics
Grant holders: Soo Downe, Ank De Jonge, Sarah Neal, Gill Thomson, George Ellison, Alexander Heazell, Anastasia Topalidou, Zoe Matthews, Carol Kingdon, Alan Charles Fenton, Alan Charles Fenton, Alexandra Severns
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Date published: 01 Aug 2022 20:18
Last modified: 09 Aug 2022 10:27

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