Place of birth choices for healthy low-risk women: A comparison of a standalone e-learning package or an e-learning package with additional support from a lead midwife to evaluate the knowledge of community midwives

Place of Birth choices for healthy low-risk women: A comparison of a standalone E-Learning package or an e-learning package with additional support from a lead midwife to Evaluate the knowledge of community Midwives- a randomised cluster controlled trial incorporating a modified solomon design: The BEEM trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN26790237

Enrollment

185

Registered

2020-04-06

Start date

2020-07-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2021-05-10

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Conditions

Knowledge of community midwives Pregnancy and Childbirth

Interventions

The intervention is the Place of Birth Lead. The unit of randomisation will be the community midwifery team within each of the four participating NHS Trusts, stratifying within each t

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: All community midwives (Band 5, 6 and 7) working in a specified LMS

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Community midwives who are Band 8 and above 2. Student midwives

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Fact based knowledge of community midwives measured using anonymous completion of a fact-based knowledge questionnaire in a three-week period before the e-Learning session is undertaken and again six months afterwards	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Knowledge improvement with E-Learning session alone by anonymous completion of a fact-based knowledge questionnaire in a three-week period before the e-Learning session is undertaken and again six months afterwards 2. Self-rated confidence of community midwives by anonymous completion of a 5 point Likert scale in a three-week period before the e-Learning session is undertaken and again six months afterwards 3. Experiences of community midwives whose teams are randomised to a Place of Birth lead midwife and those who are not by qualitative data obtained from focus groups with community midwives whose teams had a Place of Birth lead and those who are not. Focus groups will be undertaken after the six-month intervention period 4. Experiences of the Place of Birth lead midwives using qualitative data obtained from focus groups with Place of Birth leads undertaken after the 6 month intervention period 5. Responses to the ‘Safety thermometer’ question ‘Did anyone explain your options for where you could give birth?’ This is a set of questions that are routinely given to a sample of women and which will continue over the six-month intervention period. This information is recorded monthly by the Trust and data will be given to UoB after the six month intervention period	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Knowledge improvement with E-Learning session alone by anonymous completion of a fact-based knowledge questionnaire in a three-week period before the e-Learning session is undertaken and again six months afterwards 2. Self-rated confidence of community midwives by anonymous completion of a 5 point Likert scale in a three-week period before the e-Learning session is undertaken and again six months afterwards 3. Experiences of community midwives whose teams are randomised to a Place of Birth lead midwife and those who are not by qualitative data obtained from focus groups with community midwives whose teams had a Place of Birth lead and those who are not. Focus groups will be undertaken after the six-month intervention period 4. Experiences of the Place of Birth lead midwives using qualitative data obtained from focus groups with Place of Birth leads undertaken after the 6 month intervention period 5. Responses to the ‘Safety thermometer’ question ‘Did anyone explain your options for where you could give birth?’ This is a set of questions that are routinely given to a sample of women and which will continue over the six-month intervention period. This information is recorded monthly by the Trust and data will be given to UoB after the six month intervention period

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Countries

United Kingdom

Contacts

Public ContactFiona Cross-Sudworth

f.cross-sudworth@bham.ac.uk+44 (0)1214158182

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026