Disrespect and abuse are more prevalent in low-middle-income countries (LMICs) and are a hinderance in attaining universal health coverage in these countries. This project aims to develop core outcome set (COS) for respectful maternal and newborn care (RMNC) which can be used in care options as well as research in the LMICs. This COS will predominantly be developed for use in an LMIC setting and will be for women and their partners who utilise maternity services regardless of having had an institutional or home birth. The COS will be developed with the input from participants (women and their partners, researchers and healthcare professionals) from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
ContributorsProfessor Jamie Kirkham (The University of Manchester) (Supervisor)
Dr Tracey Mills (LSTM) (Supervisor)
Dr Carol Bedwell (LSTM) (Supervisor)
Dame Professor Tina Lavender (LSTM) (Supervisor)
Dr Unice Goshomi (Women's University in Africa, Zimbabwe) (Supervisor)
Dr Kushupika Dube (Women's University in Africa, Zimbabwe) (Supervisor)
Marenga Farai Mildred (Women’s University in Africa) (PhD Student)
Disease Category: Pregnancy & childbirth
Disease Name: Maternity care
Age Range: 0 - 25
Sex: Either
Nature of Intervention: Any
- Clinical experts
- Consumers (caregivers)
- Consumers (patients)
- Families
- Methodologists
- Patient/ support group representatives
- Researchers
- COS for clinical trials or clinical research
- COS for practice
- Consensus meeting
- Delphi process
- Focus group(s)
- Interview
- Literature review
- Systematic review
A systematic review will be carried out to come up with the list of outcomes, a Delphi survey will be done to enable scoring of the outcomes and a consensus meeting will be held to come up with the final COS for RMNC.