Aspect of care | Caseload | Standard care | Test statistic | ||
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Pregnancy | |||||
Total number of antenatal visits (mean, SD) (953/790) | 9.0 | 3.4 | 9.0 | 8.5 | Mean diff 0.26, p = 0.10 |
Number of different midwives seen during pregnancy (mean, SD, (range)) (960/794) | 2.8 | 1.2 (0, 14) | 4.6 | 2.6 (0, 30) | Mean diff 1.82, p < 0.001 |
Number of midwives who provided care in labour (mean, SD, (range)) (977/820) | 2.4 | 1.3 (0, 16) | 3.3 | 2.1 (0, 18) | Mean diff 0.91, p < 0.001 |
Labour and birth | |||||
Number of times had met the ‘best known’ intrapartum midwife (mean, SD, (range)) (966/820) | 3.7 | 3.0 (0, 20) | 0.2 | 0.3 (0, 10) | Mean diff 3.46, p < 0.001 |
Median (IQR (median included here as this data more skewed) | 3 | (1, 6) | 0 | (0, 0) | p < 0.001 |
(Mann–Whitney test) | |||||
Had met at least one of midwives providing care in labour at least once before (n, %) (966/820) | 853 | 88.3 | 74 | 9.0 | Chi2 p < 0.001 |
Number of times had previously met at least one of the midwives providing care in labour (n, %) (966/820): | Chi2 p < 0.001 | ||||
Had met none of midwives | 113 | 11.7 | 746 | 91.0 | |
Once | 198 | 20.5 | 45 | 5.5 | |
Two times | 100 | 10.4 | 12 | 1.5 | |
Three times | 91 | 9.4 | 4 | 0.5 | |
Four times | 112 | 11.6 | 2 | 0.2 | |
Five times | 105 | 10.9 | 4 | 0.5 | |
Six times | 98 | 10.1 | 2 | 0.2 | |
Seven times or more | 149 | 15.4 | 5 | 0.6 | |
Would have liked to get to know midwife attending birth better before had baby (n, %) (917/818) | Chi2 p < 0.001 | ||||
Yes, definitely | 331 | 36.1 | 405 | 49.5 | |
Yes, possibly | 235 | 25.6 | 247 | 30.2 | |
No, not really | 351 | 38.3 | 166 | 20.3 | |
Postpartum | |||||
Had a least one postnatal visit at home with midwife met before (n, %) (957/777) | 896 | 96.3 | 123 | 15.8 | Chi2 p < 0.001 |