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post #1 of 47
8/3/12 at 5:51pm
Thread Starter 

Please take this anonymous survey about UC if you have ever planned or had a UC. It's an attempt to get decent safety stats, among other things. Ideally there will be over 1000 responses. Good & bad outcomes, transports, etc.

 

I really, really hope to get a lot of replies.

 

http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=bbc98d9e-af20-44b4-b231-674394860c9f

 

If you belong to any other UC forums, please share it there.

 

Thank you

 

ETA If you have trouble with that link http://77.68.57.3/Survey.aspx?id=bbc98d9e-af20-44b4-b231-674394860c9f also works


Edited by Devaskyla - 8/3/12 at 10:57pm
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post #2 of 47
8/9/12 at 10:34am

Hello,

  Is this a survey you are conducting yourself?  Is it for an academic research project or some other purpose? 

Thanks

post #3 of 47
8/9/12 at 4:01pm
Thread Starter 

Yes, I'm doing it myself. I believe that UC'ers need better stats in order to make an informed decision and since real researchers aren't interested, I decided it was up to the UC community to generate our own info. And, since no one else seemed to be doing it currently, I decided to do it myself.

 

The more responses I get, with all kinds of outcomes, the more reliable the results will be.

 

The survey will be open until at least July 31, 2013 to try to allow time for word to spread and more people to respond

post #4 of 47
8/13/12 at 10:01am
Thats a great survey! I hope you get many replies, I would love to see the data.
The only confusing parts were:
Asking about the complication being due to UC- which complication, to me or to baby?
The list of what births you had- was this meant before the UC or all together?
post #5 of 47
8/13/12 at 3:49pm
Thread Starter 

Thank you for taking it & for the feedback. I've fixed the problems now. There should have been a separate questions for the complications for each of you.

 

I will be posting the data once I have enough surveys completed. At the moment I have 58 complete & 14 incomplete surveys. Not really enough to say anything yet.

post #6 of 47
8/14/12 at 12:33pm

Filled it out.  thumb.gif  I look forward to seeing the data once you get more replies!

post #7 of 47
8/19/12 at 11:56am

happy to answer :) can't wait to see the stats.

post #8 of 47
8/20/12 at 4:26am

Thank you for taking the initiative to do this.

 

What I had trouble with was that several of the questions were posed in a way that allows one to answer specifically for one birth. If a mother has several differing experiences, it doesn't seem to allow for that. Maybe the beginning of the survey made that clear and I just missed it.

 

hth

post #9 of 47
8/20/12 at 12:09pm

i've only had 1 UC birth (so far planing another in oct) so that glitch didn't bother me. smile.gif

post #10 of 47
8/22/12 at 10:52pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by L.A.mama View Post

Thank you for taking the initiative to do this.

 

What I had trouble with was that several of the questions were posed in a way that allows one to answer specifically for one birth. If a mother has several differing experiences, it doesn't seem to allow for that. Maybe the beginning of the survey made that clear and I just missed it.

 

hth

 

Yes, the introduction points out that you should take the survey once for each UC you have planned or had. So 3 surveys for 3 births, for example. It allows for more accurate data, since someone could transfer for one, and then stay home for another.

 

So far there are 76 complete surveys & a couple of the incompletes are only missing demographics.

 

I really appreciate everyone taking the time to complete it. For some reason I'm getting a lot of incomplete surveys (26%) ; has anyone had trouble taking it?

post #11 of 47
8/25/12 at 5:12pm

I took it, with no issues.  Can't wait to see data.  :)

post #12 of 47
8/27/12 at 12:02am

Submitted three surveys for three freebirths. It was clear and easy to take. I birthed all three times on my knees with my hands and arms on a chair or window bench for support, but there was no option for that, so I wrote it in each time. 

 

I'm really looking forward to seeing the results. Do you have this posted at other forums as well? Thank you for this survey! I enjoyed it! :)

post #13 of 47
8/29/12 at 10:44am

Took it for my two UC's and have posted a link on uk babycentre private UC board, easy to take and sooo excited for the results :D
 

post #14 of 47
8/30/12 at 4:44pm
Thread Starter 

Some preliminary data from the survey.

After removing 6 responses who said they had neither planned not had a UC, as well as over a dozen responses where only the first question was answered, there were 128 surveys, 103 complete and 25 incomplete. On examination, many of the incompletes were actually complete or only missing demographic info. Some of these surveys were taken once and meant to cover several births instead of being filled out individually for each birth

Of these 128 surveys 90.63% planned or had a UC and 9.37% had an unplanned UC.

7.97% had a UC because of hospital restrictions, 5.58% because of midwifery restrictions & 3.98% because of too few midwives

Of those who had children present, 92% would have them at a future birth

13.16% of mothers had complications, mostly tears or bruising, 2 had bleeding requiring transport and 1 had severe cervical damage

5.5% of babies had complications. This is the hard part, out of 110 respondents for this section, there were 3 baby deaths. There were also 3 babies who needed resuscitation.

I'm hoping the high rate of deaths is because women who lost their baby are more motivated to let people know but there's no way of determining that without a much higher response rate


 

post #15 of 47
9/16/12 at 9:08am

just some feedback -  

the language complications "as a result of" confused me.  The first time i tried completing the survey (on my phone - the second to last page wouldn't load correctly and i had to start over on a computer) I put in my "complications" (tearing, etc).  When i went to complete the survey on the computer I paused at the wording and put no complications because i believed my complications would have occurred regardless of whether or not the birth was assisted or not.  It might be worth clarifying that in the question.

 

I would also have liked the answers expanded for those who received prenatal care - ob vs midwife, and then whether or not the provider knew or was supportive of the UC plans.

post #16 of 47
9/20/12 at 6:25am

I filled out 2 surveys. I had a planned UC that I had to switch to a hospital birth at the end because of moving to a stricter country at the time and I had an actual UC state side. Is there a way to see the results yet?

post #17 of 47
9/23/12 at 4:38pm

I took 3 surveys for 3 UC births. How are the survey stats looking now?

post #18 of 47
9/23/12 at 6:15pm
Thread Starter 

The survey is up to 175 complete responses & 44 "incomplete". Some of those incompletes are either actually done or just missing demographic info. Some have 1 or zero questions answered. I've been deleting those as I find them, probably at least 30 have been deleted already.  I'd really like to have at least 500 completed.

 

There have been several more deaths reported, some under mother's complications and some under baby, so I'll have to go through individually to see if any were listed under both, but the number of deaths just from counting mentions is 12. 50% believe their complication listed under the mother's section was due to birthing unassisted, 80% believe their complication listed under the baby's section was due to birthing unassisted. Again, I'll have to go through the surveys individually to get more details on how many deaths or cases of permanent injury are believed by the respondent to be a result of birthing unassisted.

 

anarqkiki I'm having trouble finding your incomplete survey to delete it.  Were your answers the same on both surveys, other than the complications section?

 

At this point, I can't add or change questions

post #19 of 47
9/24/12 at 6:13am

I did not fill out bc have not had or planned UC. I see a flaw with your recruitment methods though, as you will not catch moms who had a bad experience and as a result no longer hang out on UC boards. So your stats will be skewed towards good experiences. nak.

post #20 of 47
9/24/12 at 8:25am

I'd say the percentage doesn't sound so great. The other issue I see with recruitment though is that there are a few people that come on this board just because they don't like UC and would like to cause problems or go make fun of it on rant boards. I've seen a rant board before and it was sad.