Table 1 Articles included in the metasynthesis and quality assessment
Reference | Aim | Method | Data collection Setting | Quality assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Author | Theoretical | |||
Discipline | perspective | |||
2. Emmet, Shaw, Montgomery, Murphy, Nursing | To explore women's experiences of decision-making about mode of delivery after previous CS | Qualitative study | 21 women with a previous CS | M:36 |
Framework approach | 12 planned a VBAC, 9 planned a CS | |||
The participants home | ||||
Two city hospitals England and Scotland | ||||
13. McGrath, Phillips, Vaughan | To explore the decision-process from the mothers' perspective with regard to subsequent birth choice for women who had previously been delivered by CS | Descriptive phenomenology | 4 women who had a VBAC | M:34 |
Nursing | Van Manen | Locations of the participants' choice 6-8 weeks post partum | ||
Australia | ||||
18. Phillips, McGrath, Vaughan | The reasons motivating women to try for a VBAC from the perspective of women | Descriptive phenomenology | 4 women who had a VBAC | M:35 |
Nursing | Van Manen | Locations of the participants’ choice 6-8 weeks post partum | ||
Australia | ||||
19. Fenwick, Gamble Hauck Midwifery | Explore and describe the childbirth expectations knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of women who have experienced a CS and would prefer a VBAC in subsequent pregnancy | Thematic analysis | 35 women recruited from 157 respondents; 24 who attempted a vaginal birth and 11 who would choose this in a subsequent pregnancy | M:36 |
Australia | ||||
20. Meddings, Phipps | The lived experience of women who elected to attempt a vaginal birth following a previous CS | Phenomenological method | 8 women recruited via community | M:31 |
Haith-Cooper, Haigh Nursing | Pregnancy 34 weeks and 6 weeks after birth | |||
Participants' own home UK | ||||
29. McGrath, Phillips | The focus is on women who valued a vaginal birth who delivered by CS | Descriptive phenomenology | 8 women who valued a vaginal delivery but who delivered by CS | M:34 |
Vaughan | Locations of the participants' choice | |||
Nursing | 6-8 weeks post partum | |||
Australia | ||||
30. Goodhall, McVittie, | Explore mother's perceptions of the influence of health professionals (GP, midwives, and consultants) on decisions as to mode of delivery of second children, following a previous CS. | Interpretative phenomenology | 10 pregnant women (medium gestation of 32 weeks) recruited via Edinburgh | M:32 |
Magil | ||||
Psychology | National Childbirth Trust and personal contacts | |||
Interviewee's home | ||||
UK | ||||
31. Ridley, Davis | Discover what influences women in the decision to deliver via VBAC | Descriptive qualitative method | 4 women delivered via VBAC | M:35 |
Bright, Sinclair | 2-4 months post partum | |||
Nursing | Postpartum unit in a hospital | |||
US |