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The problem
Intervention: Mindfetalness-based education to increase awareness of fetal movement patterns, provided in addition to routine fetal movement information
Who it was tested with: Swedish-Somali migrant women with singleton pregnancies giving birth from gestational week 32+0 (n=1,251 intervention, n=1,555 control).
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"An intervention study with a non-randomised control group, encompassing Swedish-Somali migrant women, with a singleton pregnancy, giving birth from gestational week 32 + 0 between June 2022 and June 2024. Data was collected from the Swedish Pregnancy Register and the Swedish Neonatal Quality Register." The study compared a defined intervention group receiving Mindfetalness education against a control group using national health registers, making it quasi-experimental.
Non-randomised design limits causal inference; groups may have differed in unmeasured ways. No information provided on intervention fidelity, adherence, or mechanism explaining why vaginal birth mode increased without improvements in other outcomes. Study notes challenges in implementing health interventions in high-quality healthcare settings.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 2 countries
