Respectful Maternity Care
Research and tools designed to help understand how service users experience care.
TOOLS for measuring respectful maternity care include:
MADM
The Mothers Autonomy in Decision Making scale (MADM) is a scale developed to assess women’s experiences with maternity care.
MADM
It is a reliable and valid instrument, presently MADM version 1.0 is the most recent version and should be used for all new studies.
MOR
The Mothers on Respect index (MOR) is a scale developed to assess the nature of respectful patient-provider interactions and their impact on a person’s sense of comfort, behavior, and perceptions of racism or discrimination.
MOR
The MOR index is a reliable, patient-informed quality and safety indicator that can be applied across jurisdictions to assess the nature of provider-patient relationships, and access to person-centered care.
(Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Our multidisciplinary team is launching national study of experience of respect, discrimination, and mistreatment in the childbearing year, specifically among disadvantaged communities including First Nations/ Indigenous, LGTBQ2SIA+, recent immigrants and pregnant persons living with disabilities.
(Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Vancouver Foundation)
In Phase 2 of our Changing Childbirth in BC project, we are working with community members to code qualitative data on how model of care and patient-provider communication affect women’s experience of care, and to decide how best to tell these stories, and effect change. Learn more here.
(American Institute of Research)
Implementation of the MADM and MORi quality measures in 5 US sites across diverse populations, and contexts for pregnancy and birth care.
(Transforming Birth Fund)
A Delphi study to develop an Undisturbed Labour Birth Index, a quality care measure, based on evidence-based indicators, that can implemented assess care in institutions and at the clinical practice level.
(Transforming Birth Fund, Groundswell Fund)
This participatory action study in the US used indicators developed and validated by service users to examine how planned place of birth, race and ethnicity affect pregnancy and birth care, experiences with respect, discrimination, or mistreatment, and access to options for care. Learn more here.
In development via collaboration with multidisciplinary stakeholders and Dr. Molly Altman.