Group Based Care Versus Individual Care- Effects on Parents Satisfaction and Health

In the RCT the midwife is randomized.There are a multicenter study. Before the study started the midwives received education about the study. Then they randomized with simple randomization per site(clinics). The midwives also have follow up meeting with the research team during the recruting period. The parents are informed about the study at the booking appointment, after that they can choose if they want to participate in the study and are allocated to either intervention or control, based on the woman's date of birth. The main aim is to investigate parents' satisfaction of antenatal group based care. The RCT is based on three questionnaires which both women and their partners receive, the first at baseline before they receive different models of care, and the second questionnaire distributed four to six months after birth and the last one year after birth. Descriptive and inferential statistics will be used in the analysis.A power calculation is made and the study schould have a total number of 350 partners.