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Title: Pregnancy and Substance Misuse: an Ethnographic Study of Maternity Services, 2008-2009
Keywords: PREGNANCY
PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS
ANTENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
DRUG ABUSE
DRUG ADDICTION
METHADONE
HEROIN
COCAINE
AMPHETAMINES
DRUG OFFENCES
FOSTER CARE
CHILDREN IN CARE
CHILD PROTECTION
CHILD CUSTODY
SOCIAL SERVICES
MIDWIVES
ANTENATAL CARE
PRISON SENTENCES
PROBATION
PARENTAL ROLE
CHILD CARE
DEPRESSION
POST-NATAL DEPRESSION
SMOKING
COUNSELLING
HEALTH ADVICE
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
FAMILY ENVIRONMENT
PARENT PARTICIPATION
HOUSING TENURE
HEALTH CONSULTATIONS
BREAST-FEEDING
SPOUSES
MOTHERS
POSTNATAL CARE
MATERNITY PATIENTS
ETHNOGRAPHY
DRUG-USE DETECTION
DRUG USE
2008-2009
England
Description: <P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P>
This is a qualitative data collection. The study set out to address two research questions: <ul><li>how are pregnant substance-misusing women and their foetuses assessed and monitored?</li><li>how do substance-misusing women describe their response to the treatment they are offered and to the supervision and surveillance of their pregnancies?</li></ul>The results of the study were intended to advance sociological understanding of the medical regulation of women who are considered deviant consumers and of the choices they make in response to the identities and options that are available to them. The study was designed to investigate the competing identities of motherhood and substance misuse and to contribute to the understanding of agency and structural disadvantage. The findings of the study will be of use to clinicians and policy makers in developing and improving services for substance-misusing pregnant and post-partum women.<br> <br> The criteria for participation in the study were problem opiate or cocaine using women who were either pregnant or who had given birth within the previous two years. In addition interviews were carried out with midwives, drug workers and sonographers and observations were made of antenatal appointments and scans. The focus of the study was the investigation of how substance-misusing pregnant and postpartum women manage 'spoiled identities'. <br> <br> Further information may be found on the ESRC <a class="external" href="http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-000-22-2794/read" title="Pregnancy and Substance Misuse: and Ethnographic Study of Maternity Services">Pregnancy and Substance Misuse: and Ethnographic Study of Maternity Services</a> webpage.<br> <br>
<B>Main Topics</B>:<BR>
The interviews explored substance-misusing women's experience of antenatal services and postnatal services; their drug treatment experience during their pregnancies and their postnatal experience.
URI: https://t2-4.bsc.es/jspui/handle/123456789/62842
Other Identifiers: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-7190-1
7190
http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-7190-1
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