Table 2 The inclusion and exclusion criteria used during the screening of search results
Inclusion | Exclusion | |
|---|---|---|
Participants | Women who are primiparous or multiparous, at any gestational term, of any mode of birth, or experienced either a facility-based or non-facility-based birth | Women who have not brought a viable pregnancy to full term, birth partners who are not fathers, health care professionals |
Intervention | Investigating informed choice in maternal health, specifically what influences it and women’s experiences of making decisions about their maternity care | VBAC, Specific focus on maternity service use and access, reproductive choices, infertility treatment, HIV/AIDS in pregnancy, health behaviours in pregnancy, foetal screening, or decision-making about specific risks or complications, VBAC, planned caesarean section, post-natal care and practices, clinical or technical quality of care only, women’s experiences described by others (e.g. health professionals) |
Outcomes | Any | N/A |
Study design | Primary qualitative studies, including, but not limited to, ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory and feminist research. Qualitative components of mixed methods or experimental studies | Quantitative studies, RCTs, quantitative findings from mixed methods designs Open-ended questions in survey studies |
Study focus | Exploration of women’s informed decision-making about their maternity care and health, specifically what influences choice and women’s experiences of this decision-making process | Main focus is not on exploration or women’s experiences of informed decision-making in a maternal health context |
Setting | High-income countries, middle-income countries with comparable health care system and socio-cultural background to the United Kingdom | Low-income countries, mid-income countries where health system and socio-cultural background is not comparable to that of the United Kingdom |
Time period | 1990–2017 | Before 1990 |
Language | English | All other languages |
Publication type | Peer-reviewed articles, theses, research reports | Reviews, opinion articles, policy documents |