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The miscarriage clinic: an audit of the first year
Author(s) -
TURNER M. J.,
FLANNELLY G. M.,
WINGFIELD M.,
RASMUSSEN M. J.,
RYAN R.,
CULLEN S.,
MAGUIRE R.,
STRONGE J. M.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1991.tb13398.x
Subject(s) - miscarriage , audit , grief , medicine , significant difference , obstetrics , pregnancy , psychiatry , genetics , management , economics , biology
Summary. We preview the results of the first year in a Miscarriage Clinic set up in 1989 in an effort to improve the support and counselling of women who have a miscarriage. Of 381 patients referred, 79% attended. The only statistically significant difference between the women who attended and those who did not attend was in the proportion of women who had planned their pregnancies (65% versus 33%, P <0.01 ). Of the 300 patients who attended, 4% reported no grief reaction; 75% experienced a reaction which had resolved within one month and 21% experienced a reaction which had not resolved. No factor was identified which could predict the duration of the grief reaction. This audit demonstrates that there is a strong demand and need for this service for couples who experience a miscarriage.