Sawtell, Mary
Sweeney, Lorna
Wiggins, Meg
Salisbury, Cathryn
Eldridge, Sandra
Greenberg, Lauren
Hunter, Rachael
Kaur, Inderjeet
McCourt, Christine
Hatherall, Bethan
Findlay, Gail
Morris, Joanne
Reading, Sandra
Renton, Adrian
Adekoya, Ruth
Green, Belinda
Harvey, Belinda
Latham, Sarah
Patel, Kanta
Vanlessen, Logan
Harden, Angela
Funding for this research was provided by:
Programme Grants for Applied Research (RP-PG-1211-20015)
Article History
Received: 31 March 2017
Accepted: 6 February 2018
First Online: 5 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study has been approved by the NHS Health Research Authority National Research Ethics Committee North East-York (27 March 2015, ref.15/NE/0106) and the appropriate permissions for all the participating sites secured. All information collected during the trial will be kept confidential and adhere to the 1998 Data Protection Act.There is no individual consent process for the outcomes evaluation due to the reliance on anonymous routine data. For the observation of community co-design workshops, participants were informed before the workshop began, that the researcher would not record any personal or identifiable data concerning anyone in attendance. Remaining in the workshop was interpreted as participants giving consent to the researcher making non-identifiable notes of the workshop processes. All potential survey and interview participants will be taken through information and consent procedures with verbal and written information provided before written consent is requested. Potential participants will be given adequate time to consider whether or not they want to participate – with contact details given to the research team should they want more time for this. Bilingual research assistants or health care interpreters (in antenatal clinics) will be included in the informed consent and data collection processes to provide language support where necessary.
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