Information For Service Providers
Participating as Key Informant
To understand the context of service implementation and delivery a first stage of the study entails talking to key informants engaged in delivering the service including:
- Health service administrators
- Pregnancy Counsellors
- GPs/Doctors in WHCs
- Obstetricians, Midwives and Social Workers in maternity hospitals.
Participating as Site to Connect Participants
To hear people’s experiences qualitative interviews will be carried out with 40-50 service users who have recently engaged with abortion care and unplanned pregnancy support services including:
- People attending unplanned pregnancy counselling services who may decide to continue the pregnancy or not
- People under 12 week’s gestation seeking abortion care whose care pathway begins by consulting GP or WHC doctor.
- People under 12 week’s gestation seeking abortion care whose care pathway involves them attending hospital services.
- People over 12 week’s gestation who qualify for abortion care under 2018 Act.
- People who need to access abortion care outside of Ireland
The findings of this research will inform HSE service planning and development and provide an evidence base that will help to inform the review of the Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Act 2018 scheduled for 2021.
The research team are engaging with service providers to seek help reaching people for interview. This involves you providing people attending your service for unplanned pregnancy and abortion care services with an Invitation to Take Part and a Detailed Study Information sheet explaining the study. People fill out an electronic or paper-based Consent to be Contacted to return their contact details and details of their age, education and area of residence to the research team. People are then contacted by the research team to receive further information about the study and be asked for their consent to take part in a qualitative interview for the study.
Your Role
Your role would involve
- Telling people about the study.
- Providing people with paper or electronic materials on the Study.
- Telling them if they wish to take part they must fill out the electronic or paper-based Consent to be Contacted form, or leave blank if they do not want to take part, to be returned to the researchers.
Where can I get more information?
If you would like any further information on this study, contact;
Dr Catherine Conlon
Assistant Professor of Social Policy
School of Social Work and Social Policy
Trinity College Dublin.
Phone: 01 896 1312 or 085-265 9637
conlonce@tcd.ie
Dr Kate Antosik-Parsons
Research Fellow
School of Social Work and Social Policy
Trinity College Dublin.
Phone: 01 896 1312 or 085-265 9637
kantosik@tcd.ie