However, there is a need to understand how such interventions are perceived by the targeted group.
Such measures can also ensure that policy and clinical interventions are perceived by patients to be making improvements to care.
It is clear that RCTs of trial recruitment interventions are perceived to be difficult to carry out, so other study designs are commonly used.
This paper also supports with ample evidence the ethnographic insight that institutional settings affect how unconventional CAM interventions are perceived and practiced [ 29].
The degree of implementation of second and third victim support interventions was perceived to be greater in hospitals (mean 14.1, SD 3.5) than in primary care (mean 11.8, SD 3.1) (p < 0.001).
Overall, the degree of implementation of the proposed interventions was perceived to be greater in hospitals (mean 14.1, SD 3.5) than in primary care (mean 11.8, SD 3.1) (p < 0.001).
This implies that attempts to integrate these technologies across all levels of need, from those who predominantly self-manage, to those who require complex case management, would require a degree of cultural shift in the way such interventions are perceived.
44 In our study, the predominant focus on youth may partly account for the finding that the interventions were perceived as least helpful in the domain of 'developing supportive and respectful relationships with healthcare workers' post-transfer.
First, they questioned whether expectant parents were able to fully exercise their rights of autonomy in relation to decisions about routine pregnancy ultrasound, as well as other prenatal screening tests, as this 'normalisation' may mean that these interventions are perceived to be standard and compulsory parts of pregnancy care.
While no patterns or trends are evident within the charted data of identified interventions for BAME pregnant women, the interventions did all report 'positive outcomes', consequently, the included interventions were perceived as being beneficial to the target populations, although more rigorous research is needed to determine their efficacy [ 47, 48].
