Developing a Core Information Set for Vaginal Birth
Ensuring women are fully informed about their birth choices
If you have any questions about the study, please contact the study’s principal investigator, Dr Andrew Demetri, andrew.demetri@bristol.ac.uk
If you have any concerns and would like to contact someone who is independent of the study, please contact the University of Bristol Governance Team by email: research-governance@bristol.ac.uk
We want to improve women’s experience of labour and birth by ensuring women have important and relevant information given to them prior to making the decision to have a vaginal birth. There are lots of aspects and key points about vaginal delivery that women are not aware of prior to going through labour. Being unaware of these aspects, or risks, of labour mean that women may not be able to make completely informed decisions about their care. If women are not prepared for their experiences of vaginal birth, then this can lead to an increase in trauma and negative birth experiences. By giving women the key information about vaginal birth, we hope that they can be better informed to make decisions about vaginal birth, leading to less unexpected experiences, and greater satisfaction with their labour and birth.
https://comet-initiative.org/Studies/Details/2069
The COMET Initiative brings together people interested in the development and application of agreed standardised sets of outcomes, known as ‘core information sets’ (CIS) or ‘core outcome sets’ (COS).
‘Core information sets’ are defined as a minimum set of consensus-derived information points about a given procedure or process that should be discussed with all patients. Importantly, they are intended to drive discussion of subjective importance to individual patients.
In the case of this study, the aim is to generate a list of key information points to discuss with women planning to have a vaginal birth.