Living a Pregnancy After a Peri-natal Grief: How Well Does Pregnancy Follow-up Meet Women's Needs and Expectations?

NCT ID: NCT06107530

Last Updated: 2025-07-23

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 9 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-10-09
• Study Completion Date: 2024-03-30

Brief Summary

Every year in France, around 7,000 children are born without life, following a medical termination of pregnancy (IMG), fetal death in utero (FDIU) or premature delivery ("late miscarriage"). For families affected by perinatal bereavement, the pregnancy that follows this silent birth is a moment apart, between anguish and guilt, joy and apprehension. The aim of this research project is to improve the understanding of what women go through during the pregnancy that follows, with a view to proposing a practical tool for the professionals who take care of them, in order to improve and personalize their follow-up.

Conditions

Pregnancy Related

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Semi structured interview

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

semi structured interview

Intervention Type: OTHER

Women fulfilling the inclusion / exclusion criteria will be asked to participate to a semi structured interview with a psychiatrist or a psychologist

Interventions

semi structured interview

Women fulfilling the inclusion / exclusion criteria will be asked to participate to a semi structured interview with a psychiatrist or a psychologist

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Women who have given birth to a stillborn child (singleton or twin pregnancies):

• delivery following fetal death in utero or medical termination of pregnancy at 15 weeks gestational age and later
• extreme preterm birth ("late miscarriage") from 15 weeks gestational age Patient who subsequently carried a pregnancy to term and gave birth to a live, viable child between 2020 and 2023.
• French-speaking patient
• Patient who does not object to her participation in this research study

Exclusion Criteria

• Women who have experienced a natural termination of pregnancy ("early miscarriage") before 15 weeks of amenorrhea.
• Women who have given birth by suction in the operating theatre.
• Women who are pregnant with twins in the pregnancy following bereavement. Patient under guardianship or curatorship
• Patient deprived of liberty
• Patient under court protection

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Fondation hôpital Saint Joseph

Paris, , France

Countries

France

Other Identifiers

GARDEN

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id