ArticleBMC pregnancy and childbirth2019
Pregnancy related risk perception in pregnant women, midwives & doctors: a cross-sectional survey.
Article in BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Perceptions of risk in pregnancy with chronic disease: A systematic review and thematic synthesis.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- The effect of individual education and care provided in living spaces to pregnant women in the earthquake region on prenatal distress, risk perception, and labour anxiety.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Trial
- The relationship between pregnancy risk perception and attitudes toward sexuality during pregnancy among pregnant women in Türkiye: a cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Artificial intelligence for predicting and preventing adverse pregnancy outcomes addressing bias and clinical translation.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Review
- Healthcare providers' educational role and Saudi pregnant women's knowledge of active labor signs: a cross-sectional correlational study.Journal of medicine and life · 2025Article
- Development and validation of the birth integrity questionnaire for measuring attitudes, maternity care, and perceptions of birth.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Women's experiences of high-risk pregnancy care in resource constrained Cape Town communities.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2025Article
- Exploring COVID-19 vaccine attitudes among pregnant women: key factors and strategies to enhance uptake.npj women's health · 2025Article
- How women living with HIV in the UK manage infant-feeding decisions and vertical transmission risk - a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Article
- Social representations of pregnant women about high-risk pregnancy: repercussions for prenatal care.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2023Article
- Adherence to screening and management guidelines of maternal Group B Streptococcus colonization in pregnancy.Journal of advanced nursing · 2022Article
- Decision-making for prenatal genetic screening: how will pregnant women navigate a growing number of aneuploidy and carrier screening options?BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Obstetricians' Attitude towards Childbirth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Clinical Outcomes in High-Risk Pregnancies Due to Advanced Maternal Age.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2021Article
- Making the most of the first prenatal visit: The challenge of expanding prenatal genetic testing options and limited clinical encounter time.Prenatal diagnosis · 2020Article
- Factors that influence occupational physicians' decision to issue an employer warning in Japan.Journal of occupational health · 2020Article
- Perceived Risk in Women with High Risk Pregnancy: A Qualitative Study.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundRisk perception in relation to pregnancy and birth is a complex process influenced by multiple personal, psychological and societal factors. Traditionally, the risk perception of healthcare professionals has been presented as more objective and authoritative than that of pregnant women. Doctors have been presented as more concerned with biomedical risk than midwives. Such dichotomies oversimplify and obscure the complexity of the process. This study examines pregnancy-related risk perception in women and healthcare professionals, and what women and professionals believe about each other's risk perception.
methodsA cross sectional survey of set in UK maternity services. Participants were doctors working in obstetrics (N = 53), midwives (N = 59), pregnant women (N = 68). Participants were recruited in person from two hospitals. Doctors were also recruited online. Participants completed a questionnaire measuring the degree of perceived risk in various childbirth-related scenarios; and the extent to which they believed others agreed with them about the degree of risk generally involved in childbirth. Main outcome measures were the degree of risk perceived to the mother in baby in pregnancy scenarios, and beliefs about own perception of risk in comparison to their own group and other groups.
resultsThere were significant differences in total risk scores between pregnant women, doctors and midwives in perception of risk to the mother in 68/80 scenarios. Doctors most frequently rated risks lowest. Total scores for perceived risk to the baby were not significantly different. There was substantial variation within each group. There was more agreement on the ranking of scenarios according to risk. Each group believed doctors perceived most risk whereas actually doctors most frequently rated risks lowest. Each group incorrectly believed their peers rated risk similarly to themselves.
conclusionsIndividuals cannot assume others share their perception of risk or that they make correct assessments regarding others' risk perception. Further research should consider what factors are taken into account when making risk assessments.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.