NCT06771661

Parents' Experience of Child Loss During Pregnancy or Birth

Parents' Experience of Child Loss During Pregnancy or Birth - an Explorative, Sequential Mixed-methods Study

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Fritz Sterr · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators are conducting a participatory study with and for parents after child loss during pregnancy or birth. Their aim is to develop treatment recommendations for healthcare professional. These focus on question, how to deal with parents when experiencing child loss.

Detailed description

The entire study is following a participatory approach and including parents after stillbirth in the research team. Along a co-creative design, the investigators planned a multistep-explorative mixed-methods study. In detail, three key steps will be conducted. First, workshops and focus groups will be carried out to identify central needs of affected parents. Afterwards, one investigator will interview the parents narratively to gain an in-depth understanding of their experiencs. Finally, these findings will be summarized and translated into treatment recommendations for healthcare professionals.

Conditions

• Stillbirth and Fetal Death
• Miscarriages
• Experience

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Workshops	The investigators will conduct workshops with parents to get closer to the main topic.
OTHER	Focus group interviews	The investigators will conduct focus group interviews with parents on their needs before and during child loss.
OTHER	Narrative interviews	The investigators will conduct narrative interviews with parents to gain an in-depth understanding of their lived experience before and during the intrauterine or perinatal child loss.
OTHER	Delphi approach	The investigators will carry out a Delphi approach with parents to translate and confirm or revise the findings into treatment recommendations for healthcare professionals.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-12-02
• Primary completion: 2025-12-01
• Completion: 2026-12-01
• First posted: 2025-01-13
• Last updated: 2025-01-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany