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Costs and effectiveness of community postnatal support workers: randomised controlled trial
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OBJECTIVES: To establish the relative cost effectiveness of postnatal support in the community in addition to the usual care provided by community midwives. DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial with six month follow up. SETTING: Recruitment in a university teaching hospital and care provided in women's homes. PARTICIPANTS: 623 postnatal women allocated at random to intervention (311) or control (312) group. INTERVENTION: Up to 10 home visits in the first postnatal month of up to three hours duration by a community postnatal support worker. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: General health status as measured by the SF-36 and risk of postnatal depression. Breast feeding rates, satisfaction with care, use of services, and personal costs. RESULTS: At six weeks there was no significant improvement in health status among the women in the intervention group. At six weeks the mean total NHS costs were pound 635 for the intervention group and pound 456 for the control group (P=0.001). At six months figures were pound 815 and pound 639 (P=0.001). There were no differences between the groups in use of social services or personal costs. The women in the intervention group were very satisfied with the support worker visits. CONCLUSIONS: There was no health benefit of additional home visits by community postnatal support workers compared with traditional community midwifery visiting as measured by the SF-36. There were no savings to the NHS over six months after the introduction of the community postnatal support worker service.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Morrell, C. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Morrell, C J.
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2000-09-09
- Volume
- 321
- Issue
- 7261
- Pages
- 593-598
- ISSN
- 0959-8138 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC27472
- OpenAlex
- W2158759181
- Cited by
- 229
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Health Technology Assessment Programme
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Obstetrics and Gynecology › Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Keywords
- postpartum care, home visits, community midwifery, cost-effectiveness, postpartum depression, breastfeeding, patient satisfaction, NHS costs, women's health
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Allied Health Personnel, Breast Feeding, Community Health Nursing, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Female, Follow-Up Studies, United Kingdom, House Calls, Humans, Nurse Midwives, Postnatal Care, Pregnancy, Treatment Outcome, Patient Satisfaction, Depression, Postpartum
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