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Table 1 Characteristics of survey participants (midwives)

From: Opening the door: midwives’ perceptions of two models of psychosocial assessment in pregnancy- a mixed methods study

 

Usual Care

surveys

N = 26

PIPA Condition

surveys

N = 27

Midwife age (years)

 20–29

6 (24%)

4 (15%)

 30–39

2 (8%)

8 (31%)

 40–49

8 (32%)

6 (23%)

 50–59

9 (36%)

8 (31%)

Mean years experience (SD, range)

14.4 (9.13, 0.8–30)

13.6 (9.65, 0.6–32)

Mean years experience conducting psychosocial assessments (SD, range)

7.6 (5.55, 0.4–20)

9.4 (7.49, 0.8–24)

Mean booking visits conducted/week

3.3 (3.02, 0–11) c

2.7 (2.51, 0.5–10)

N providing care under

 standard models (e.g. GP Shared Carea)

12 (48%)d

9 (33%)

 Midwifery Group Practiceb

13 (52%)

17 (63%)

 Other (manager)

–

1 (4%)

N completed formal training in psychosocial assessmentd

 in past year

4 (17%)

13 (48%)

 1+ year ago

13 (54%)

10 (37%)

 Never

7 (29%)

3 (11%)

N completed training in the PIPA condition

n/a

24 89%)e

  1. aShared care is an arrangement between a birthing hospital or other birth setting and a general practitioner (GP). Women will see their GP for some pregnancy appointments, and also have hospital appointments in early and later pregnancy
  2. bMidwifery Group Practice (MGP) is a model of maternity care where women receive one to one care with a midwife for their pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal care
  3. c one midwife recorded ‘0’ for bookings per week because at the time of the survey she was not undertaking booking visits; however, due to her extensive experience, her comments were retained in analyses
  4. dn = 1 case missing data
  5. en = 2 cases missing data in UC and PIPA conditions, respectively
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