The Health Literacy in Pregnancy (HeLP) Program Study Protocol: Development of an Antenatal Care Intervention Using the Ophelia Process

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Health Literacy in Pregnancy (HeLP) Program Study Protocol

T2 - Development of an Antenatal Care Intervention Using the Ophelia Process

AU - Meldgaard, Maiken

AU - Maimburg, Rikke Damkjær

AU - Damm, Maiken Fabricius

AU - Aaby, Anna

AU - Peeters, Anna

AU - Maindal, Helle Terkildsen

N1 - Funding Information: Funding: This study was funded by the Danish Regions and supported by Aarhus University. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

PY - 2022/4

Y1 - 2022/4

N2 - A pregnant woman needs adequate knowledge, motivation, and skills to access, understand, appraise, and apply health information to make decisions related to the health of herself and her unborn baby. These skills are defined as health literacy: an important factor in relation to the woman’s ability to engage and navigate antenatal care services. Evidence shows variation in levels of health literacy among pregnant women, but more knowledge is needed about how to respond to different health literacy profiles in antenatal care. This paper describes the development protocol for the HeLP program, which aims to investigate pregnant women’s health literacy and co-create health literacy interventions through a broad collaboration between pregnant women, partners, healthcare providers, professionals, and other stakeholders using the Ophelia (Optimising Health Literacy and Access) process. The HeLP program will be provided at two hospitals, which provide maternity care including antenatal care: a tertiary referral hospital (Aarhus University Hospital) and a secondary hospital (the Regional Hospital in Viborg). The Ophelia process includes three process phases with separate objectives, steps, and activities leading to the identification of local strengths, needs and issues, co-design of interventions, and implementation, evaluation, and ongoing improvement. No health literacy intervention using the Ophelia process has yet been developed for antenatal care.

AB - A pregnant woman needs adequate knowledge, motivation, and skills to access, understand, appraise, and apply health information to make decisions related to the health of herself and her unborn baby. These skills are defined as health literacy: an important factor in relation to the woman’s ability to engage and navigate antenatal care services. Evidence shows variation in levels of health literacy among pregnant women, but more knowledge is needed about how to respond to different health literacy profiles in antenatal care. This paper describes the development protocol for the HeLP program, which aims to investigate pregnant women’s health literacy and co-create health literacy interventions through a broad collaboration between pregnant women, partners, healthcare providers, professionals, and other stakeholders using the Ophelia (Optimising Health Literacy and Access) process. The HeLP program will be provided at two hospitals, which provide maternity care including antenatal care: a tertiary referral hospital (Aarhus University Hospital) and a secondary hospital (the Regional Hospital in Viborg). The Ophelia process includes three process phases with separate objectives, steps, and activities leading to the identification of local strengths, needs and issues, co-design of interventions, and implementation, evaluation, and ongoing improvement. No health literacy intervention using the Ophelia process has yet been developed for antenatal care.

KW - co-design

KW - health literacy

KW - health literacy responsiveness

KW - health promotion

KW - inequality

KW - intervention development

KW - organizational health literacy

KW - pregnancy

KW - Humans

KW - Health Literacy

KW - Maternal Health Services

KW - Pregnancy

KW - Health Promotion

KW - Health Personnel

KW - Female

KW - Prenatal Care

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85127609428

U2 - 10.3390/ijerph19084449

DO - 10.3390/ijerph19084449

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 35457317

AN - SCOPUS:85127609428

SN - 1661-7827

VL - 19

JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

IS - 8

M1 - 4449

ER -