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Postpartum
Research Studies
Over the past decade, medical professionals have made significant advances in the medical technology used to care for expectant mothers of multiples, premature infants, and children with ongoing medical or developmental needs. Research has focused on improving care both during and after pregnancy, which has resulted in better health outcomes for expectant mothers and their children.
MOST continues to conduct research studies like those listed below, to help highlight more opportunities to help researchers and practitioners identify areas that might warrant more formal in-depth study and to help keep families and medical professionals up-to-date with recent trends.
MOST is currently seeking new participants for the ongoing research surveys listed below. These studies are open to any MOST Member. If you would like to obtain a survey questionnaire, please contact the MOST office.
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Other quality sources for research and statistics:
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| Attention researchers: If you are conducting a research study on multiple births and would like to involve MOST families, please submit a Research Study Contract (PDF) for consideration. |
Postpartum Depression after Pregnancy Complications
MOST (Mothers of Supertwins) is working with Dr. Amy Przeworski , faculty in the School of Psychology, and Dr. Judith Maloni a professor of Nursing and Women’s Health at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio, USA who are conducting an internet based study about the postpartum mood of women who were hospitalized for a high risk pregnancy and now, in the postpartum, feel that they are depressed. The purpose of this study is to determine whether women now have postpartum depression and other moods, their use of the internet to obtain health information and their desire to seek help using an internet based intervention. The study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of CWRU is being conducted using a safe internet site managed by our university. If you had pregnancy complications, i.e. a/high risk pregnancy and were hospitalized during that time and your baby is now at least 2 months old and you feel you have postnatal depression you are eligible to participate in the study. If you are interested in participating, please click on the following link to do so.
Click to take the postpartum depression survey conducted
 
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Disclaimer While MOST makes every effort to provide links to quality outside sources; the information derived from these sites cannot be determined by MOST. MOST assumes no risk in their use. Visitors to these sites should always discuss medical information with their own health care providers. |
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MOST Medical Birth Survey |
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The MOST 'Medical Birth Survey' is a longitudinal study started in 1988. The survey collects data pertaining to socio-demographic status, medical, gynecologic, and obstetric history, pregnancy, perinatal, and neonatal events related to higher-order multiple pregnancies and births. The survey also gathers information regarding breastfeeding and ongoing developmental and medical challenges in multiple birth children. The database of responses currently contains over 1300 participants and over 4000 infants. This survey is one of the most comprehensive and extensive databases on multiple births in the world.
See current statistics from this study:
Demographics/Background | Conception
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Post-Partum
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Quadruplet profile | Quintuplet profile | Sextuplet profile
Primary researcher: Kelly Ross, MD,
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Newborn Medicine Washington University School of Medicine & Pediatric Hospitalist, Missouri Baptist Hospital
Additional researchers: Maureen A. Doolan Boyle, MOST Executive Director; Elizabeth Pector, MD, FAAFP, MOST Advisory Board; Laurie LaMonde Ph.D, Clinical Psychologist; Kate Collopy, Ph.D., RN, CCNS Bioethics; Karen Lohan, RN FAAFP, MOST Advisory Board; Lauretta Shokler, MOST Technology Director |
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MOST Subsequent Pregnancy Survey |
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The MOST 'Subsequent Pregnancy Survey', started in 2004, is an ongoing study specifically designed to gather information about pregnancies and births following the birth of higher-order multiples. The survey contains questions about socio-demographic status, medical, gynecologic, and obstetric history, as well as pregnancy, perinatal and neonatal events for each mother's higher-order multiple pregnancy and birth and all subsequent pregnancies. The database for this survey currently contains 32 participants. See current statistics from this study.
Primary researcher: Diane Wipfler, OTR/L, MOST Chairman/Associate Medical Director
Additional researchers: Maureen A Doolan Boyle, MOST Executive Director; Lauretta Shokler, MOST Technology Director |
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MOST Divorce and the Multiple Birth Family Survey |
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The MOST 'Divorce and the Multiple Birth Family' survey was conducted
from June 25, 2009 to July 27, 2009. The study was designed to develop baseline statistics about the prevalence of divorce among multiple birth parents, including parents of twins, triplets, quadruplets, and more as well as identify at what point a divorce is most likely to occur during the child rearing years. The survey contained 10 multi-part questions on family background, socioeconomic status, parent and children's age, as well as questions about marital status and divorce.
MOST conducted this survey to help evaluate the level of marital-related support services our organization provides to parents of multiples as well as the overall level of support services offered to single parents of multiples. See current statistics from this study.
Primary researcher: LaMonde Ph.D, Clinical Psychologist, MOST Research Director
Additional researchers: Maureen A Doolan Boyle, MOST Executive Director; Lauretta Shokler, MOST Technology Director |
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Other Multiple Birth Research Opportunites |
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MOST is recognized as a trusted and recommended link for health information on multiple births by HealthFinder, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website that provides reliable online health information.
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Updated 4/8/10
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