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Title: | Midwives', Obstetricians', and Recently Delivered Mothers' Perceptions of Remote Monitoring for Prenatal Care: Retrospective Survey | Authors: | LANSSENS, Dorien VANDENBERK, Thijs LODEWIJCKX, Joy Peeters, Tessa STORMS, Valerie THIJS, Inge GRIETEN, Lars GYSELAERS, Wilfried |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Publisher: | JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC | Source: | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH, 21(4) (Art N° e10887) | Abstract: | Background: The Pregnancy Remote Monitoring (PREMOM) study enrolled pregnant women at increased risk of developing hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and investigated the effect of remote monitoring in addition to their prenatal follow-up. Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the perceptions and experiences of remote monitoring among mothers, midwives, and obstetricians who participated in the PREMOM study. Methods: We developed specific questionnaires for the mothers, midwives, and obstetricians addressing 5 domains: (1) prior knowledge and experience of remote monitoring, (2) reactions to abnormal values, (3) privacy, (4) quality and patient safety, and (5) financial aspects. We also questioned the health care providers about which issues they considered important when implementing remote monitoring. We used a 5-point Likert scale to provide objective scores. It was possible to add free-text feedback at every question. Results: A total of 91 participants completed the questionnaires. The mothers, midwives, and obstetricians reported positive experiences and perceptions of remote monitoring, although most of them had no or little prior experience with this technology. They supported a further rollout of remote monitoring in Belgium. Nearly three-quarters of the mothers (34/47, 72%) did not report any problems with taking the measurements at the required times. Almost half of the mothers (19/47, 40%) wanted to be contacted within 3 to 12 hours after abnormal measurement values, preferably by telephone. Conclusions: Although most of midwives and obstetricians had no or very little experience with remote monitoring before enrolling in the PREMOM study, they reported, based on their one-year experience, that remote monitoring was an important component in the follow-up of high-risk pregnancies and would recommend it to their colleagues and pregnant patients. | Notes: | [Lanssens, Dorien; Vandenberk, Thijs; Lodewijckx, Joy; Peeters, Tessa; Storms, Valerie; Thijs, Inge M.; Grieten, Lars; Gyselaers, Wilfried] Hasselt Univ, Mobile Hlth Unit, Limburg Clin Res Program, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Lanssens, Dorien; Vandenberk, Thijs; Lodewijckx, Joy; Peeters, Tessa; Storms, Valerie; Thijs, Inge M.; Grieten, Lars; Gyselaers, Wilfried] Hasselt Univ, Fac Med & Life Sci, Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Lanssens, Dorien; Thijs, Inge M.; Gyselaers, Wilfried] Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg, Dept Cardiol & Future Hlth, Genk, Belgium. | Keywords: | remote monitoring; gestational hypertensive diseases; questionnaires; monitoring; ambulatory; hypertension; pregnancy-induced; surveys and questionnaires;remote monitoring; gestational hypertensive diseases; questionnaires; monitoring, ambulatory; hypertension, pregnancy-induced; surveys and questionnaires | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/30034 | ISSN: | 1438-8871 | DOI: | 10.2196/10887 | ISI #: | 000465547600001 | Rights: | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2020 |
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