Table 5 Potential measures from self-complete questionnaires for the full trial
From: Group antenatal care: findings from a pilot randomised controlled trial of REACH Pregnancy Circles
Domains | Description of proposed items and standardised measures | Time point | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Baseline | First follow-up–35 weeks gestation | Second follow-up–4 months postnatal | ||
Socio-demographics | Age Ethnicity (UK Census categories) Main language English speaking ability Parity Education (highest qualification) Type of housing (own home/rented) Occupancy (who live with) | ✓ | ||
Social support | Duke-UNC Functional Social Support Questionnaire [19] | ✓ | ✓ | |
Self-efficacy | Pearlin Mastery Scale [20] | ✓ | ||
Prenatal stress | Revised Prenatal Distress Scale [21] | ✓ | ✓ | |
Empowerment | Pregnancy-related Empowerment Scale (PRES) [22] | ✓ | ||
Involvement in decisions about care/satisfaction with care | Included questions from NHS Patient Survey Programme (NPSP), CQC 2017, Picker Institute and new questions designed for this study | ✓ | ✓ | |
Health service usage | Self-reported use of a variety of health services (GP, health visitor, hospital doctor, A&E services, antenatal/postnatal admissions, uptake of immunisations at 2 and 3 months postnatal) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Breastfeeding continuation and exclusivity | Type of milk in first few days after birth/type of milk at 3 months old | ✓ | ||
Postnatal depression | Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale [23] | ✓ | ||
Postnatal health symptoms | Postnatal symptoms checklist (as used in National Maternity Survey 2010) [24] | ✓ | ||