Identification and treatment of potential pregnancy complications

Identification and treatment of potential pregnancy complications

Reply 1

There is a gap in the early identification and treatment of potential pregnancy complications in women in the United States that could potentially prevent severe maternal morbidity or mortality.

Research Question

When women receive early and targeted prenatal care as opposed to standard self-driven prenatal care, does the number of women with severe maternal morbidity decrease over the duration of 40 weeks?

Sampling Plan

For this research, the sampling method used will be a simple random sampling.  The goal is to have a sample size of 100 subjects.  To select the sample, volunteers for the study will provide information and consent.  The submissions will be reviewed for approval based on inclusion criteria.  The names of those that meet criteria will be placed in a computerized system that will randomly populate two evenly distributed groups:  the control group and the test group (Gray et al., 2017).  This random selection method is typically a strong representation of the general target population, and the results can be generalized to pregnant women between the ages of 18-35.

Research Design

The design for this research is the pretest-posttest control group design.  This is also known as the experimental design.  With this type of research, subjects are randomly assigned to either a control or treatment group and the dependent variable is measured.  Intervention is only applied to the treatment group, and then the dependent variable is measured again in both groups.  In the case of this research, the control group will receive standard, self-driven prenatal care while the test group will receive early and targeted prenatal care.