Population birth outcomes in 2020 and experiences of expectant mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A ‘born in Wales’ mixed methods study using routine data

Hope Jones; Mike Seaborne; Laura Cowley; David Odd; Shantini Paranjothy; Ashley Akbari; Sinead Brophy

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0267176

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Population birth outcomes in 2020 and experiences of expectant mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A ‘born in Wales’ mixed methods study using routine data

Hope Jones ,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: h.e.jones@swansea.ac.uk

Affiliation National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4312-476X

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Mike Seaborne,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4921-7556

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Laura Cowley,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, Research and Evaluation Division, Knowledge Directorate, Public Health Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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David Odd,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Shantini Paranjothy,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Data Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Ashley Akbari,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Data Science, Health Data Research UK, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-0801

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Sinead Brophy

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7417-2858

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Population birth outcomes in 2020 and experiences of expectant mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A ‘born in Wales’ mixed methods study using routine data

Hope Jones,
Mike Seaborne,
Laura Cowley,
David Odd,
Shantini Paranjothy,
Ashley Akbari,
Sinead Brophy

Published: May 24, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267176
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