Building system and workforce capacity
Current Projects
Below are projects that may be of interest to primary care providers who are committed to improving the quality and delivery of sexual and reproductive health services to women in Australia.
The IPCOMM Study
Contraception enables women to attain the number and spacing of births they desire – crucial for health, economic and social wellbeing – yet many women lack access to information or services to achieve this postnatally and are at risk of unintentionally falling pregnant again soon after birth. Midwives are well-placed to provide contraception information and care, yet this is not common practice in Australia. The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability of a comprehensive midwifery-led model of contraceptive care to increase access to and uptake of contraception.
Is it feasible to use general practice patient records to identify high-risk women for preconception care?
Preconception care is about enhancing the health of women and pregnancy outcomes by managing risk factors that can lead to adverse pregnancy outcomes. To deliver effective preconception care in general practice, it is important that general practitioners can easily identify women who are at high-risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. This project aims to determine the feasibility of identifying reproductive-aged women at high risk of poor pregnancy outcomes through the review of electronic medical records.
Developing a practice nurse-led model of care to deliver preconception interventions
This project builds on our early qualitative work investigating the barriers and enablers to the delivery and uptake of preconception care in general practice to develop, pilot, and evaluate an innovative model of care in general practice to deliver practice nurse-led preconception care.
Publications
Mazza D, James S, Black K, Taft A, Bateson D, McGeechan, Norman WV
Withanage NN, Botfield J, Srinivasan S, Black K, Mazza D
Taft A, Watson CJ, McCarthy E, Black KI, Lucke J, McGeechan K, Haas M, McNamee K, Peipert JF, Mazza D
Withanage N, Botfield J, Black K, Mazza D
Cheney K, Black K, Pelosi M, Dorney E
Botfield JR, Tulloch M, Contziu H, Bateson D, Phipps H, Wright SM, McGeechan K, Black KI
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