Surveillance during pregnancy: methods and response rates from a hospital based pilot study of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System in Ireland

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dc.contributor.authorO'Keeffe, Linda M.
dc.contributor.authorKearney, Patricia M.
dc.contributor.authorGreene, Richard A.
dc.contributor.funderHealth Research Boarden
dc.contributor.funderNational Perinatal Epidemiology Centre, College of Medicine and Health, University College Cork
dc.contributor.funderCork University Maternity Hospital
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-12T12:51:31Z
dc.date.available2015-02-12T12:51:31Z
dc.date.issued2013-09
dc.date.updated2014-09-01T10:30:11Z
dc.description.abstractBackground: Many European countries including Ireland lack high quality, on-going, population based estimates of maternal behaviours and experiences during pregnancy. PRAMS is a CDC surveillance program which was established in the United States in 1987 to generate high quality, population based data to reduce infant mortality rates and improve maternal and infant health. PRAMS is the only on-going population based surveillance system of maternal behaviours and experiences that occur before, during and after pregnancy worldwide.Methods: The objective of this study was to adapt, test and evaluate a modified CDC PRAMS methodology in Ireland. The birth certificate file which is the standard approach to sampling for PRAMS in the United States was not available for the PRAMS Ireland study. Consequently, delivery record books for the period between 3 and 5 months before the study start date at a large urban obstetric hospital [8,900 births per year] were used to randomly sample 124 women. Name, address, maternal age, infant sex, gestational age at delivery, delivery method, APGAR score and birth weight were manually extracted from records. Stillbirths and early neonatal deaths were excluded using APGAR scores and hospital records. Women were sent a letter of invitation to participate including option to opt out, followed by a modified PRAMS survey, a reminder letter and a final survey.Results: The response rate for the pilot was 67%. Two per cent of women refused the survey, 7% opted out of the study and 24% did not respond. Survey items were at least 88% complete for all 82 respondents. Prevalence estimates of socially undesirable behaviours such as alcohol consumption during pregnancy were high [>50%] and comparable with international estimates.Conclusion: PRAMS is a feasible and valid method of collecting information on maternal experiences and behaviours during pregnancy in Ireland. PRAMS may offer a potential solution to data deficits in maternal health behaviour indicators in Ireland with further work. This study is important to researchers in Europe and elsewhere who may be interested in new ways of tailoring an established CDC methodology to their unique settings to resolve data deficits in maternal health.en
dc.description.sponsorshipHealth Research Board (PHD/2007/16)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.articleid180
dc.identifier.citationO'Keeffe, LM, Kearney, PM, Greene, RA (2013) 'Surveillance during pregnancy: methods and response rates from a hospital based pilot study of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System in Ireland'. BMC Pregnancy And Childbirth, 13: 180. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-13-180en
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1471-2393-13-180
dc.identifier.journaltitleBMC Pregnancy And Childbirthen
dc.identifier.startpage180en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/1780
dc.identifier.volume13en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/13/180
dc.rights2013 O’Keeffe et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0en
dc.subjectSurveillanceen
dc.subjectMaternalen
dc.subjectPregnancyen
dc.subjectBehaviouren
dc.subjectMeasurement toolen
dc.subjectBirth-weighten
dc.subjectSubsequent risken
dc.subjectMetanalysisen
dc.subjectGrowthen
dc.titleSurveillance during pregnancy: methods and response rates from a hospital based pilot study of the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System in Irelanden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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