Centering Pregnancy and Traditional Prenatal Care

Centering Pregnancy and Traditional Prenatal Care
Author: Kaylynn Shakespear
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Release: 2008
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Centering Pregnancy is an alternative method of providing prenatal care with increased education and social support with health assessment in a group setting. This study, a cross-sectional, correlational, convenience-sample design, sought to determine the difference between women who receive prenatal care in Centering Pregnancy prenatal care and those in traditional prenatal care in regards to health behaviors. Adult pregnant women (n = 125) were surveyed from at least 28 weeks gestation. The sample comprised primarily White low-income women. Using multiple linear regression, it was determined that women in Centering Pregnancy had significantly lower index health behavior scores compared with the traditional care group (p =.01); those in Centering Pregnancy reported engaging in fewer health-promoting behaviors. Furthermore, those in Centering Pregnancy reported a lower perceived value of prenatal care in the current study. No differences were observed for smoking and weight gain behaviors between groups. A number of health behaviors changed during pregnancy for both groups but no significant differences were found.

Centering Pregnancy

Centering Pregnancy
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Total Pages: 158
Release: 2016
Genre: Electronic dissertations
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"Centering Pregnancy is a type of group prenatal care that allows women to meet and receive their prenatal care together. The groups meet ten times during the pregnancy and focuses on different aspects of prenatal care. This critical review of the literature focuses on maternal and neonatal benefits of group prenatal care over traditional one-on-one care. A secondary analysis looks at how group prenatal care affects adolescents, women of low socioeconomic status, and minority ethnicities."--Leaf 3.

CenteringPregnancy®

CenteringPregnancy®
Author: Judith Faust
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Release: 2016
Genre: Nursing
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Background: Because Philadelphia’s infant mortality rate is well above the national average of 6.7 per 1,000 live births at 10.8 per 1,000 births, an Evidenced-based Practice model of group prenatal care, Centering Pregnancy, was implemented through an innovative opt-out approach for medically high-risk pregnant women. Funded by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns Initiative, Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia (EMCP) implemented this model of group prenatal care model with urban pregnant women who are at risk for having a preterm birth and also enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP. This Doctor of Nursing (DNP) project focused on the feasibility of implementing and sustainability of the model post grant funding by examining the staff’s attitudes about implementing evidence-based practice (EBP) and patients’ satisfaction with their group model of prenatal care. Methods: A descriptive research design was used. The Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS) tool measured staff attitudes towards adopting evidence-based practice. Patient satisfaction was measured by analyzing existing information that was already collected from patients participating in Centering Pregnancy model of prenatal care. Results: Among 26 staff that was surveyed about their attitudes towards adopting EBP, variation existed. The mean score among physicians on the EBPAS was the highest, which was over 10 points compared to nurses and the support staff. The vast majority of the patients (> 90%) who completed evaluations of CP during their 10th group session reported they liked this group model of prenatal care. Conclusions: Tremendous administrative efforts were invested to implement this evidence-based practice known as Centering Pregnancy. Most relevant were study findings that reveal high levels of staff adoption and patient satisfaction, which are important reasons to sustain this group model of prenatal care.

CenteringPregnancy

CenteringPregnancy
Author: Allison Faye Mills
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Total Pages: 84
Release: 2019
Genre: Maternal health services
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Traditional prenatal care has been the stalwart of care in the United States since the 1920s; however, a new model of care is emerging: group-style prenatal care. This model of care has been well-documented within literature as having notable maternal and fetal outcomes, including increased patient satisfaction, decreased preterm birth rates, increased breastfeeding rates, and increased patient compliance, to name only a few. With such remarkable outcomes, it begs the question of why the group prenatal care model is not more widely utilized. This project aimed to determine if increasing the knowledge of healthcare providers in a private obstetrics practice regarding the CenteringPregnancy model of care led to increased intent to provide this model of care within the practice. A pre-education survey was given to 32 participants, followed by education regarding group-style prenatal care, followed by a post-education survey. Results suggested that an increase in knowledge regarding the CenteringPregnancy model leads to an increased interest in providing this model of care.

Group Prenatal Care and Social Determinants of Health

Group Prenatal Care and Social Determinants of Health
Author: Simon Parker-Shames
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Total Pages: 43
Release: 2017
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Objective: Group prenatal care (GPC) models are increasingly a focus of observational studies of birth outcomes, yet there are limited data on the socio-demographic and health characteristics of women who elect GPC compared to traditional primary care (TPC). The purpose of this study was to identify and describe potential differences in pregnancy characteristics, social determinants of health (SDOH), prenatal complications, and behavioral risk factors between women who elect GPC compared to TPC in a Federally Qualified Health Clinic (FQHC) setting. Study Design: This study was a retrospective cohort analysis of women who elected GPC compared to those who elected TPC, from a group of 2,376 patients entering prenatal care at the study site between 2011 and 2017. Cohort composition was examined with regards to pregnancy characteristics, social determinants of health (SDOH), behavioral risk factors, and diagnosis of medical complications during prenatal care. Variables were compared between cohorts using bivariate statistics, stratified by trimester at intake in order to compare women who entered prenatal care at similar gestational ages. Results: In the 1st trimester stratum, GPC was associated with 0.7 fewer prior pregnancies (P