Skip to main content

Table 1 Participant demographics

From: Development and evaluation of training resources to prepare health professionals for counselling pregnant women about non-invasive prenatal testing for Down syndrome: a mixed methods study

  Pre/post training (n = 381) Follow-up (n = 151) Interviews (n = 35)
Hospital and region (no. trained)
 University College London Hospital, Central London (72) 70 (18.4%) 37 (24.5%) 8 (22.9%)
 Queens Hospital Romford, Essex (64) 62 (16.3%) 22 (14.6%) 2 (5.7%)
 St Georges Hospital, South West London (25) 24 (6.3%) 20 (13.2%) 7 (20.0%)
 Princess Alexandra Hospital, Hampshire (131) 128 (33.6%) 45 (29.8%) 5 (14.3%)
 Salisbury District Hospital, Wiltshire (20) 18 (4.7%) 7 (4.6%) 4 (11.4%)
 Tayside Hospital, Scotland (9) 8 (2.1%) 4 (2.6%) 3 (8.6%)
 Queen Charlottes and Chelsea Hospital, West London (38) 38 (10.0%) 8 (5.3%) 4 (11.4%)
 Whittington Hospital, North London (33) 33 (8.7%) 8 (5.3%) 2 (5.7%)
Type of hospital
 District General Hospital 241 (63.3%) 82 (54.3%) 13 (37.1%)
 Teaching Hospital 140 (36.7%) 69 (45.7%) 22 (62.9%)
Age group in years
 < 25 48 (13.1%) 17 (11.6%) 0
 25 – 35 102 (27.8%) 49 (33.6%) 6 (20.0%)
 36 – 45 77 (21.0%) 27 (18.5%) 8 (26.7%)
 46 – 55 115 (31.4%) 46 (31.5%) 15 (50.0%)
 > 56 24 (6.6%) 7 (4.8%) 1 (3.3%)
Gender
 Female 366 (97.3%) 142 (96.6%) 31 (88.6%)
 Male 10 (2.7%) 5 (3.4%) 4 (11.4%)
Profession
 Midwife 355 (96.2%) 141 (96.6%) 28 (82.4%)
 Otherb 14 (3.8%) 5 (3.4%) 6 (17.6%)
Which area do you currently work in?
 Antenatal clinic 38 (10.3%) 14 (9.6%) 4 (11.8%)
 Fetal medicine 25 (6.8%) 18 (12.3%) 2 (5.9%)
 Community 110 (29.8%) 44 (20.1%) 4 (11.8%)
 Rotational midwifea 15 (4.1%) 6 (4.1%) 0
 Delivery and birth centre 8 (2.2%) 4 (2.7%) 0
 Antenatal screening midwife/coordinator 3 (0.8%) 3 (2.1%) 5 (14.7%)
 Postnatal ward 3 (0.8%) 2 (1.4%) 0
 Student midwife 22 (6.0%) 8 (5.5%) 0
 General inc. antenatal/community 118 (32.0%) 37 (24.3%) 0
 Specialist midwife 13 (3.5%) 5 (3.4%) 13 (38.2%)
 Otherb 14 (3.8%) 5 (3.4%) 6 (17.6%)
Length of time in post in years
 < 1 32 (9.0%) 18 (12.5%) 9 (30.0%)
 2 – 5 201 (56.3%) 83 (57.6%) 13 (43.3%)
 6 – 10 64 (17.9%) 23 (16.0%) 6 (20.0%)
 > 10 60 (16.8%) 20 (13.9%) 2 (6.7%)
Run booking clinics
 Yes 281 (75.7%) 116 (78.4%) 9 (25.7%)
 No 90 (24.3%) 32 (21.6%) 26 (74.3%)
  1. Missing data: between 2% and 6.3% of respondents did not answer one or more of the demographic questions
  2. aMidwives who rotate between the maternity areas
  3. bObstetricians, Genetics, Day Assessment Unit, Education, Ultrasound
Back to article page

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

ISSN: 1471-2393

Contact us