Specific antenatal interventions for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) pregnant women at high risk of poor birth outcomes in the United Kingdom: a scoping review

Table 2 Included studies characteristics

Authors	Target population	Location	Participants (N)	Method
Austin, 2011 [53]	Pregnant women, all ethnicities included (only 17 % population described as white British in Newham [ONS, 2011])	Newham, East London.	219	Sequential mixed methods (cross-sectional and qualitative).
Dormandy et al., 2010 [54]	Pregnant women <19 weeks, 6 days gestation No record of SCT^a status	U.K. – inner cities (not specified) with high percentages of BAME women (at least 40 %)	1441	Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
Wiggins et al., 2004 [55]	Mothers who delivered between 1st Jan 1999-30th Sept 1999	Camden and Islington, London.	731 (341 = “non-white” and 181 non English speaking participant	Randomised Controlled Trial
Littler, 2010 [58]	Teenage parents	Bolton	160	Multi-Agency intervention^b
Khan, 2008 [56]	Vulnerable and hard to reach pregnant women	West Yorkshire	286	Service intervention^c

^aSickle Cell Thalassemia (SCT). ^b Multi-Agency care pathway for teenage parents. ^c Befriending/advocacy service for vulnerable and ‘hard to reach’ women in the ante/post natal period

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