Babi-D explained
The objectives of the BaBi-D project
- To understand and improve the health and wellbeing of local children and families across Doncaster.
- To work collaboratively with partners and collect local data to ensure future research resources for future generations.
- To link data across multiple services and wider providers.
- To maintain a strong focus on health inequalities and inclusion.
- To ensure all our midwives are trained and encouraged to promote BaBi-D to local families and to include BaBi-D midwife data collection training to all newly qualified midwives.
- For BaBi-D to lead by example and encourage other trusts to be a part of the larger Born In Bradford Programme, BiB4All.
- To ensure locally commissioned services are inclusive and incorporate values from the health inequalities, ethnicity, and deprivation strategy.
Joining the BaBi-D programme
When you see your midwife, they will invite you to become part of the study. If you agree to take part, health researchers will join together lots of data about you and your child so that we can look at ways to improve health, care and services through research and planning in Doncaster and beyond. We are asking everyone who is pregnant in Doncaster to join the project.
Taking part is entirely voluntary and it is up to you whether you decide to join the project. There is no long questionnaire to complete or samples to give, just your permission to allow us to access your data. While there is no direct benefit to you or your child in taking part, we hope that we will learn from all of the information we do get and this will help us to improve health, care and services through research and planning for everyone in Doncaster. This might be through improving the way health and care services are delivered in the future or finding new relationships between our genes and health.
More information about participating in this research programme can be found within the below Participant Information sheets.
If you need this information in another language, please get in touch: dbth.babi@nhs.net
We really appreciate your support on this journey. Together, we can understand our community needs better and what can be done to improve health outcomes for our future generations.
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