2 results
A study to evaluate the effectiveness of Best Beginnings’ Baby Buddy phone app in England: a protocol paper
- Toity Deave, Sally Kendal, Raghu Lingam, Crispin Day, Trudy Goodenough, Elizabeth Bailey, Sam Ginja, Sam Nightingale, Jane Coad
-
- Journal:
- Primary Health Care Research & Development / Volume 20 / 2019
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 23 July 2018, e19
-
- Article
-
- You have access Access
- Open access
- HTML
- Export citation
-
Introduction
Developments in information and communication technologies have enabled electronic health and seen a huge expansion over the last decade. This has increased the possibility of self-management of health issues.
PurposeTo assess the effectiveness of the Baby Buddy app on maternal self-efficacy and mental well-being three months post-birth in a sample of mothers recruited antenatally. In addition, to explore when, why and how mothers use the app and consider any benefits the app may offer them in relation to their parenting, health, relationships or communication with their child, friends, family members or health professionals.
MethodsWe will use a mixed-methods approach, a cohort study, a qualitative element and analysis of in-app data. Participants will be first-time pregnant women, aged 16 years and over, between 12 and 16 weeks of gestation and recruited from five English study sites.
Evaluation planWe will compare maternal self-efficacy and mental health at three months post-delivery in mothers who have downloaded the Baby Buddy app compared with those that have not downloaded the app, controlling for confounding factors. Women will be recruited antenatally between 12 and 16 weeks of gestation. Further follow-ups will take place at 35 weeks of gestation and three months post-birth. Data from the cohort study will be supplemented by in-app data that will include, for example, patterns of usage. Qualitative data will assess the impact of the app on the lives of pregnant women and health professionals using both focus groups and interviews.
EthicsApproval from the West Midlands-South Birmingham Research Ethics Committee (NRES) (16/WM/0029) and the University of the West of England, Bristol, Research Ethics Committee (HAS.16.08.001).
DisseminationFindings of the study will be published in peer reviewed and professional journals, presented locally, nationally and at international conferences. Participants will receive a summary of the findings and the results will be published on Best Beginnings’ website.
three - Ethical protection in research: including children in the debate
- Edited by Marie Smyth, Emma Williamson
-
- Book:
- Researchers and their 'Subjects'
- Published by:
- Bristol University Press
- Published online:
- 20 January 2022
- Print publication:
- 13 October 2004, pp 55-72
-
- Chapter
- Export citation
-
Summary
Introduction
This chapter considers participants’ views of ethical protection in longitudinal epidemiological genetic research. The data presented in the chapter was collected as part of a project called ‘Ethical Protection in Epidemiological Genetics (EPEG): Participants’ Perspectives’. This was a three-year, qualitative research project designed to consider how adult and child participants in a major longitudinal epidemiological and genetic study of child health (the ALSPAC study; see Chapter Nine of this book) perceive and understand their involvement in that research, with particular reference to the ethical protection of participants.
This chapter is particularly concerned with how child participants describe their relationships both to research and researchers, and to what extent and at what point can they be said to have consented to participate in the study. It offers insight into the way in which the ‘objects’ or ‘subjects’ of scientific enquiry perceive that role and contextualises that within wider contemporary debates about the role of children within society. Following a brief outline of the EPEG project methodology, this chapter first considers how children perceive their initiation into research within various processes of consent and proxy consent. This includes an examination of what children thought about the content of research, as well as whether they thought they would take part in research if asked now. We look at the choices that children make and their perceptions of the implications of such choices before examining what participation itself meant to this specific group of children.
What does this chapter contribute to an edited collection such as this one? It offers a unique insight into the perceptions of child research participants and focuses on their views of decision-making and ethics. The chapter is deliberately descriptive in terms of the presentation of children’s voices in order to ensure that the diversity of ‘participants’ is represented. This chapter offers the reader an opportunity to consider how child participants of research perceive their own roles in the research process and the relationships that inevitably develop between researcher and researched in long term studies such as that considered.
EPEG study sample
The EPEG study sample is drawn from participants in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as the Children of the Nineties Study, which is an extensive epidemiological genetic longitudinal study of children born in the Bristol area with an expected date of delivery between 1 April 1991 and 31 December 1992.
![](/core/cambridge-core/public/images/lazy-loader.gif)