An observational study in Stillbirth and Fetal Death, Miscarriages and Experience, sponsored by Fritz Sterr. Completed at 1 site in Germany. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-31.
Sponsored by Fritz Sterr · Observational
The investigators are conducting a participatory study with and for parents after child loss during pregnancy or birth. Their aim is to develop treatment recommendations for healthcare professional. These focus on question, how to deal with parents when experiencing child loss.
The entire study is following a participatory approach and including parents after stillbirth in the research team. Along a co-creative design, the investigators planned a multistep-explorative mixed-methods study.
In detail, three key steps will be conducted. First, workshops and focus groups will be carried out to identify central needs of affected parents. Afterwards, one investigator will interview the parents narratively to gain an in-depth understanding of their experiencs. Finally, these findings will be summarized and translated into treatment recommendations for healthcare professionals.
117 studies on the registry are indexed under Stillbirth; 33 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 46 is below the median of 794 across 50 observational studies indexed under Stillbirth.
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Parents (mothers, fathers) will be recruited that lost their child during pregnancy or birth in hospitals, at home or birth houses.
Exclusion Criteria:
Other: Workshops · Other: Focus group interviews · Other: Narrative interviews · Other: Delphi approach
The investigators will conduct workshops with parents to get closer to the main topic.
The investigators will conduct focus group interviews with parents on their needs before and during child loss.
The investigators will conduct narrative interviews with parents to gain an in-depth understanding of their lived experience before and during the intrauterine or perinatal child loss.
The investigators will carry out a Delphi approach with parents to translate and confirm or revise the findings into treatment recommendations for healthcare professionals.
Parent's experience
The investigators are interested in parents' in-depth and lived experience before and during their intrauterine or perinatal child loss.
Time frame: During pregnancy and up to 7 days after birth
Parents' subjective needs
In qualitative interviews, the subjective needs that parents developed before and during their intrauterine or perinatal child loss will be investigated.
Time frame: During pregnancy and up to 7 days after birth
Plan to share: No — The data to be collected is particularly sensitive and is stored securely and deleted after the study. Individual pseudonymised excerpts are made public in the publications.
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