Kurtz Landy, Christine http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8631-5040
Sword, Wendy
Kathnelson, Jackie Cramp
McDonald, Sarah
Biringer, Anne
Heaman, Maureen
Angle, Pam
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institute for Health Research (Operating Grant # 130523)
Article History
Received: 24 February 2020
Accepted: 9 June 2020
First Online: 18 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval was provided by York University Research Ethics Board in Toronto, Ontario. York University Research Ethics Board reviewed and approved the procedures used to obtain verbal informed consent from participants and approved that no written consent from participants would be required in addition to the verbal consent.Information about the study and participant consent forms were emailed to all maternity care providers who expressed interest in learning more about the study and provided their email address. The information about the study also invited interested providers to telephone or email our research coordinator/researchers to ask additional questions and/or to set up a time to participate in the study. All study participants were interviewed over the telephone. This allowed the researchers to include participants representing all regions of Ontario (expanding 1,076,395 km<sup>2</sup>). Face to face interviews with maternity care from all Ontario regions was not feasible because of travel distance and cost. At the beginning of every telephone interview, the research assistant reviewed the study information and the consent form with participants. The interview proceeded only after participants provided informed verbal consent to participate.
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: We have no competing interests to declare.