Midwife led randomised controlled trials in Australia and New Zealand: A scoping review
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Neylon, K
Kennedy, K
Baird, K
Gilkison, A
Keogh, S
Middleton, S
Gray, R
Whitehead, L
Finn, J
Rickard, C
Sharplin, G
Neville, S
Eckert, M
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Background Midwives are the largest workforce involved in caring for pregnant women and their babies, and are well placed to translate research into practice and ensure midwifery priorities are appropriately targeted in researched. Currently, the number and focus of randomised controlled trials led by midwives in Australia and New Zealand is unknown.
The Australasian Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Trials Network was established in 2020 to build nursing and midwifery research capacity. To aid this, scoping reviews of the quality and quantity of nurse and midwife led trials were undertaken.
Aim To identify midwife led trials conducted between 2000 and 2021 in Australia and New Zealand.
Methods This review was informed by the JBI scoping review framework. Medline, Emcare, and Scopus were searched from 2000-August 2021. ANZCTR, NHMRC, MRFF, and HRC (NZ) registries were searched from inception to July 2021.
Findings Of 26,467 randomised controlled trials registered on the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, 50 midwife led trials, and 35 peer-reviewed publications were identified. Publications were of moderate to high quality with scores limited due to an inability to blind participants or clinicians. Blinding of assessors was included in 19 published trials.
Discussion Additional support for midwives to design and conduct trials and publish findings is required. Further support is needed to translate registration of trial protocols into peer reviewed publications.
Conclusion These findings will inform the Australasian Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Trials Network plans to promote quality midwife led trials.
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Women and Birth
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36
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© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Australian College of Midwives. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Reproductive medicine
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Australasian nursing and midwifery clinical trials network
Clinical research
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Randomized controlled trials as topic
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Homer, C; Neylon, K; Kennedy, K; Baird, K; Gilkison, A; Keogh, S; Middleton, S; Gray, R; Whitehead, L; Finn, J; Rickard, C; Sharplin, G; Neville, S; Eckert, M, Midwife led randomised controlled trials in Australia and New Zealand: A scoping review, Women and Birth, 2023, 36 (5), pp. 401-408