Table 5 Items included in Women’s antenatal and postnatal surveys
From: The Indigenous Birthing in an Urban Setting study: the IBUS study
Items | Women’s surveys | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
Socio-demographic characteristics | ||||
Indigenous status, maternal and paternal | ✓ | |||
Maternal relationship status | ✓ | |||
Educational attainment, maternal and paternal | ✓ | |||
Employment status, maternal and paternal | ✓ | |||
Government pension main source of income | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Has healthcare concession card | ✓ | |||
Has private health insurance | ✓ | |||
Has access to vehicle/transport | ✓ | |||
Number of places of residence during pregnancy | ✓ | |||
Current housing | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Experienced homelessness during pregnancy | ✓ | |||
Financial insecurity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Self-reported health problems | ||||
Experienced health problems, mother and infant | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Baby admitted to hospital, date, reason, duration | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Mother admitted to hospital, date, reason, duration | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Number of visits with baby to child health nurse, reason | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Number of visit with baby to paediatrician & reason | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Pregnancy, birth/labour & care | ||||
Gestation/age of baby | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
General feelings about pregnancy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Number of weeks first contact with care for pregnancy | ✓ | |||
Where was care received | ✓ | |||
Plans for birth location | ✓ | |||
Experience of staff behaviour | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Culturally safe aspects of care (importance, satisfaction) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Felt respected & understood by hospital staff (by area) | ✓ | |||
Felt treated poorly or judged by staff | ✓ | |||
Satisfaction with care, recommend to others | ✓ | |||
Known midwife present during labour/birth | ✓ | |||
Attendance of group antenatal classes | ✓ | |||
Smoking | ||||
Current smoking status, including number of cigarettes per day | D | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Attempts to quit | D | ✓ | ||
Advised to quit by health staff | ✓ | |||
Smoking support received, perceptions | ✓ | |||
Smoking household members | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Feeding baby | ||||
Previous breastfeeding experiences, inc. difficulties | D | ✓ | ||
Intentions to breastfeed, inc. duration | D | ✓ | ||
Confidence to breastfeed | ✓ | |||
Experience of breastfeeding, inc. initiation | ✓ | |||
Use of formula, inc. reasons, age of baby | ✓ | |||
What baby has been fed in past 24h | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Where received feeding information | ✓ | |||
Use of commercial baby food | ✓ | |||
Reasons for starting solids | ✓ | |||
Partner involvement | ||||
Partner’s feelings about pregnancy | ✓ | |||
Baby’s father & father figures (involvement, attended visits, support services) | ✓ | |||
Social and emotional wellbeing | ||||
Negative life events - full extended version | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Additional worries experienced | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Family separations | ✓ | |||
Positive wellbeing scale | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Modified Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K5) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale | D | ✓ | ||
Practical Social Support Scale | ✓ | |||
Social support available, inc. partner | ✓ | |||
Out-of-pocket costs | ||||
Time spent, support person, carer, transport, food & drink | ✓ | |||
All services accessed for pregnancy/birth/baby, number of visits, out of pocket cost per visit (i.e. not refunded by Medicare) | ✓ | |||
Out of pocket cost of medicines during pregnancy/birth/baby | ✓ | |||
Infant development | ||||
Ages and Stages Questionnaire | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Bayley III Cognitive, Language and Motor Skills (face-to-face assessment) | ✓ | |||