Parent’s Perspective on Continuity of Care in the Maternity Care and Child Health Services Continuum: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Introduction: While the World Health Organization (WHO) advocates organizing maternity care and preventive child healthcare (PCHC) as people-centred, integrated healthcare services, globally these services are often established separately, causing discontinuity of care. Our aim is to synthesize the...
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| author | Anne C. M. Hermans Silke Boertien Lauri M. M. van den Berg Ank de Jonge Danielle E. M. C. Jansen Arie Franx Jacoba van der Kooy Marlou L. A. de Kroon |
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| description | Introduction: While the World Health Organization (WHO) advocates organizing maternity care and preventive child healthcare (PCHC) as people-centred, integrated healthcare services, globally these services are often established separately, causing discontinuity of care. Our aim is to synthesize the evidence concerning what impacts parents’ experience of continuity of care, and how to promote it. Methods: Qualitative systematic review. Embase, Medline, Web of Science, Cochrane, CINAHL and Google Scholar were searched for studies on parents’ perspectives on integrated care. Helpful practices and issues regarding continuity of care were identified. Results: We found that parents valued easily accessible, tailored, family-centred care that is a display of interprofessional collaboration and is geared towards supporting and empowering parents. Discussion: Study strengths are its qualitative nature, allowing for in-depth patient views and experiences, and the multidisciplinary research team, which ensured a multidimensional view of the issue. Conclusion: Ideally, (a) parents enter the postnatal period well-prepared, and well-informed about self-care, PCHC and possible postnatal carepathways, (b) number of caretransfers is limited, (c) by overlapping maternity care and PCHC, parents are provided with an opportunity to maintain meaningful relationships with their care providers, and (d) information is consistent, family-centred, and tailored. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2bf6abc563584ec1b59bdb8cb36a66882025-02-11T05:33:50ZengUbiquity PressInternational Journal of Integrated Care1568-41562025-01-01254410.5334/ijic.86458541Parent’s Perspective on Continuity of Care in the Maternity Care and Child Health Services Continuum: A Qualitative Systematic ReviewAnne C. M. Hermans0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6976-1201Silke Boertien1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0365-3261Lauri M. M. van den Berg2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5169-0326Ank de Jonge3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5384-3744Danielle E. M. C. Jansen4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2654-1038Arie Franx5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-5546Jacoba van der Kooy6https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8841-0087Marlou L. A. de Kroon7https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1730-4994Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus MC—Sophia Children’s Hospital, RotterdamDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus MC—Sophia Children’s Hospital, RotterdamDepartment of Midwifery Science, AVAG/Amsterdam Public Health, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, AmsterdamDepartment of Midwifery Science, AVAG/Amsterdam Public Health, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, AmsterdamDepartment of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, GroningenDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus MC—Sophia Children’s Hospital, RotterdamDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus MC—Sophia Children’s Hospital, RotterdamDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus MC—Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam; Department of Health Sciences, University of Groningen and University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, NL; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Environment and Health, Youth Health Care, University of Leuven, KU Leuven, LeuvenIntroduction: While the World Health Organization (WHO) advocates organizing maternity care and preventive child healthcare (PCHC) as people-centred, integrated healthcare services, globally these services are often established separately, causing discontinuity of care. Our aim is to synthesize the evidence concerning what impacts parents’ experience of continuity of care, and how to promote it. Methods: Qualitative systematic review. Embase, Medline, Web of Science, Cochrane, CINAHL and Google Scholar were searched for studies on parents’ perspectives on integrated care. Helpful practices and issues regarding continuity of care were identified. Results: We found that parents valued easily accessible, tailored, family-centred care that is a display of interprofessional collaboration and is geared towards supporting and empowering parents. Discussion: Study strengths are its qualitative nature, allowing for in-depth patient views and experiences, and the multidisciplinary research team, which ensured a multidimensional view of the issue. Conclusion: Ideally, (a) parents enter the postnatal period well-prepared, and well-informed about self-care, PCHC and possible postnatal carepathways, (b) number of caretransfers is limited, (c) by overlapping maternity care and PCHC, parents are provided with an opportunity to maintain meaningful relationships with their care providers, and (d) information is consistent, family-centred, and tailored.https://account.ijic.org/index.php/up-j-ijic/article/view/8645systematic reviewpostpartum carepostnatal carematernity carechild health care servicescontinuity of careparent perspective |
| spellingShingle | Anne C. M. Hermans Silke Boertien Lauri M. M. van den Berg Ank de Jonge Danielle E. M. C. Jansen Arie Franx Jacoba van der Kooy Marlou L. A. de Kroon Parent’s Perspective on Continuity of Care in the Maternity Care and Child Health Services Continuum: A Qualitative Systematic Review International Journal of Integrated Care systematic review postpartum care postnatal care maternity care child health care services continuity of care parent perspective |
| title | Parent’s Perspective on Continuity of Care in the Maternity Care and Child Health Services Continuum: A Qualitative Systematic Review |
| title_full | Parent’s Perspective on Continuity of Care in the Maternity Care and Child Health Services Continuum: A Qualitative Systematic Review |
| title_fullStr | Parent’s Perspective on Continuity of Care in the Maternity Care and Child Health Services Continuum: A Qualitative Systematic Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parent’s Perspective on Continuity of Care in the Maternity Care and Child Health Services Continuum: A Qualitative Systematic Review |
| title_short | Parent’s Perspective on Continuity of Care in the Maternity Care and Child Health Services Continuum: A Qualitative Systematic Review |
| title_sort | parent s perspective on continuity of care in the maternity care and child health services continuum a qualitative systematic review |
| topic | systematic review postpartum care postnatal care maternity care child health care services continuity of care parent perspective |
| url | https://account.ijic.org/index.php/up-j-ijic/article/view/8645 |
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