Group Based Care Versus Individual Care (GBAC)

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Satisfaction

Treatments: Other: group based care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01224275

2007/553

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Study compares group based care versus individual given care-effects on patient satisfaction and health. Midwives will be randomized to either traditional antenatal care (Individual care) or group based antenatal care(intervention).

Full description

In the RCT the midwife is randomized.There are a multicenter study. Before the study started the midwives received education about the study. Then they randomized with simple randomization per site(clinics). The midwives also have follow up meeting with the research team during the recruting period. The parents are informed about the study at the booking appointment, after that they can choose if they want to participate in the study and are allocated to either intervention or control, based on the woman's date of birth. The main aim is to investigate parents' satisfaction of antenatal group based care. The RCT is based on three questionnaires which both women and their partners receive, the first at baseline before they receive different models of care, and the second questionnaire distributed four to six months after birth and the last one year after birth. Descriptive and inferential statistics will be used in the analysis.A power calculation is made and the study schould have a total number of 350 partners.

Enrollment: 1,150 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must be able to Speak Swedish

Exclusion criteria

• Non speaking Swedish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,150 participants in 2 patient groups

Group antenatal care

Experimental group

Description:

The first arm is midwife which allocated to group based antenatal care. They have education in this model of care and follow up meeting to secure the intervention

Treatment:

Other: group based care

Individual antenaal care

No Intervention group

Description:

the second arm include midwife which allocated to traditional care as control group.