07/17/2025
Birth professionals and parents in NH and VT - current study recruitment underway to understand birth trauma - you may share this text and info with the public. Thank you!
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Did you have a traumatic birth experience? Do you now have nightmares, flashbacks, or avoid memories of the birth? Does remembering your birth experience make you feel angry or sad?
We are conducting a study titled “Traumatic Childbirth and Opportunities for Improvement in Maternity Care” to understand traumatic childbirth in Vermont and New Hampshire, with an aim to create recommendations to improve maternity care and birth experiences for mothers.
We are looking for adult mothers who gave birth in VT or NH who are between 3 months and 2 years postpartum; had a traumatic experience which has resulted in distress for 3 months or longer (defined as having flashbacks, nightmares, avoiding memories of the birth, anger, sadness, and other distressing emotions). This study has received ethical approval by the Queen’s University Health Sciences and Affiliated Teaching Hospitals Research Ethics Board
What to Expect:
Participation involves an eligibility and demographic survey, and a confidential interview about your experience. We will also be conducting a focus group after maternity care improvement recommendations have been drafted. We expect this may take between 1 to 3 hours of your time. All of your information will be kept private.
To see if you are eligible, you will need to complete a survey, which may take between 10-15 minutes to complete. To get a survey link, please contact Kristen at 20kbt@queensu.ca.
