Improving MAternal Newborn carE In the in the WHO European Region During COVID-19 Pandemic

Summary

BACKGROUND COVID-19 response is heavily impacting the availability of essential health services, especially services for pregnant women and newborns that cannot be delayed or rapidly reorganized in other settings. In the current pandemic, due to multiple factors access to high quality and timely maternal and newborn (MN) health care is threatened. Major concerns have also been raised with respect to maternal rights and on disruption of essential practices and increased medicalization of care, despite existing WHO guidance.

Based on preliminary reports heterogeneities in practices is expected within the WHO European Region, with major inequities (eg women experiencing disruption of essential MC health services only in selected countries or areas within the countries, while having access to adequate care in others).

With IMAgiNE EURO we aim at conducting a survey to explore the health service preparedness, quality and resilience, with a specific focus on health services around the time of childbirth, in the WHO European Region during COVID-19 pandemic, and to make available data, which, in collaboration with WHO and other partners, can contribute in improving the quality of MN health care.

HYPHOTESIS AND SIGNIFICANCE

* This project has been developed in coordination with WHO Regional Office for Europe (EURO) and other partners, and ultimately aims at making available and disseminate data that can help improving the quality of MN health services in the Region. Collecting data on the quality of essential MN health services across different countries within the WHO European Region will help addressing specific gaps and planning coordinate response to improve quality of MN care and improve MN health outcomes.
* The project will also offer the opportunity to develop tools and methods to monitor the quality of MN health care across different countries and settings.
* The project will establish and consolidate a research network

Primary objective:

1\. Record, analyse, and describe data on MN health service preparedness, quality and resilience - with a specific focus around the time of childbirth as measured both from health workers and women perspectives- across different countries within the WHO European Region, during COVID-19 pandemic.

Secondary objectives: 2.Develop tools and methods to measure, through rapid online surveys, the quality of MN health care across different countries and settings 3.Establish and consolidate a research network

Conditions

• Quality of Care During Childbirth

Interventions

OTHER

No intervention is planned

No intervention is planned

Sponsors & Collaborators

• IRCCS Burlo Garofolo

  collaborator OTHER

• NGO Babysteps

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Roda - Parents in Action

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• INED - Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• School of Public Health, Bielefeld University

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Riga Stradins University

  collaborator OTHER

• BLL-Beruffsverband vun den Laktationsberoderinnen zu Lëtzebuerg asbl

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• UiT The Arctic University of Norway

  collaborator OTHER

• Childbirth with Dignity Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Instituto de Saude Publica da Universidade do Porto

  collaborator OTHER

• Administraçao Regional de Saude do Algarve - ACES Central - URAP - Albufeira

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Associação Portuguesa pelos Direitos da Mulher na Gravidez e Parto

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Universidade Europeia, Lisbon

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• SAMAS Association

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Centar za mame

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC, URV)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Göteborg University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Exeter

  collaborator OTHER

• WHO Collaborating Centre for Maternal and Child Health, Trieste

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Marzia Lazzerini, PhD Dr · WHO Collaborating Center for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS Burlo Garofolo

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-09-02

Primary Completion

2021-03-15

Completion

2022-09-02

Countries

• Italy

Study Locations