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Study

Pregnancy Advice during the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Perspective of Advice Professionals

Schriftzug BeSPa auf rotem Hintergrund

The pilot study to examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work of pregnancy advice centres and to systematically establish the changes to…

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Method

Method and Sample – Quantitative Survey

Approx. 100 advisors in pregnancy advice centres in Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg and Lower Saxony

Short questionnaire via web-based software EvaSys SurveyGrid

Contents

  • Experiences with the digital advice settings and their impacts on the advice process
  • Challenges and opportunities that have been experienced
  • Information on specific consultation content, target groups reached and the psychosocial and medical care situation within the context of limited contact during the COVID-19 pandemic

40 supplementary interviews with experts

 

Method and Sample – Qualitative Survey

n=8, selection of two respondents selected by federal state and association

  • Telephone interviews supported by a set of guidelines
  • Qualitative content analysis based on Mayring

Target group

Advice professionals at pregnancy advice centres in Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg and Lower Saxony

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The pilot study to examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work of pregnancy advice centres and to systematically establish the changes to advice practice as well as the living circumstances and support needs of the pregnant women (with wanted and unwanted pregnancies) and their partners.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, and the associated, temporary contact and movement restrictions, access to essential services, products and information to do with sexual and reproductive health fundamentally changed. But what has the work in pregnancy advice and pregnancy conflict advice (German law § 2 and § 5 SchKG) as well as psychosocial and medical care in the context of abortions been like under the COVID-19 pandemic?

Which social or financial problems, specific support needs in the area social and health safeguarding and psychosocial support needs in general pregnancy advice and pregnancy conflict advice are particularly significant during the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic?

For the pilot study, professionals working at pregnancy advice centres in Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg and Lower Saxony have been surveyed.

The questions focused on:

  • Experiences with the online advice setting and its impacts on the advice process
  • Challenges and opportunities that were experienced
  • Specific issues covered during sessions
  • Target groups reached
  • The psychosocial and medical care situation during the contact restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic

The study consists of a quantitative and a qualitative survey element. The quantitative online survey of professionals in Brandenburg, Berlin, Lower Saxony and Bavaria and subsequent qualitative telephone interviews capture the professionals’ experiences of their work (§2 and §5 SchKG) from their perspective.

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Project management:
Maike Böhm

Team members:
Johanna Licht
Maria Urban
Ulrike Busch
Ursula Martyniuk
Katja Krolzik-Matthei
Romy Nitzsche
Sabine Wienholz
Silja Matthiesen

Institutions

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Experiences with §219 pregnancy advice by phone or video. Client perspectives

The digitalisation of the German pregnancy (conflict) advice centres associated with the COVID-19 pandemic also led to a restructuring and…
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