Information about the Thriving Hearts Health Team Survey
The Thriving Hearts Health Team Survey is for anyone working in maternity health care in one of Thriving Hearts ten NC counties: Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Johnston, Orange, and Person County.
The Thriving Hearts Health Team Survey is being sent out to health teams working in maternity care. It is intended to assess the wellbeing and professional quality of life for health team members.
The Thriving Hearts Health Team survey is designed to evaluate the effects of the component of the Thriving Hearts intervention focused on providing training to maternity care providers. The survey will assess an employee’s wellbeing and professional quality of life.
Health Team survey data will be collected and stored on REDCap. REDCap is a secure web application that can be used to build and manage online surveys and databases. It is specifically geared to support online and offline data capture for clinical research studies and operations. Survey responses will receive a unique study ID in REDCap. Direct identifiers are removed or coded before analysis in accordance with UNC IRB requirements.
Results will be reported in aggregate for each county. Individual responses will not be shared with employers to protect employee privacy. No individual health team members will be identified in any publication or report of this study. Additionally, we will not report cell sizes <10 in reports or publications as an added measure to protect the confidentiality of respondents from small teams.
The Thriving Hearts Health Team Survey is going to be offered multiple times to employees in maternity care. It will be available in 9-month intervals, and you will receive an email when it opens each time. We will use the survey to measure how quality of life for people working in maternity care changes over time. We want to understand whether the Thriving Hearts program makes work more rewarding for members of the health care team.
The Basics
Taking the survey is not required. However, taking the survey will help local health departments, maternity care centers, and community based organizations understand how to build more supportive environments for maternal health teams in the future.
Yes, the survey is confidential. We intentionally kept demographic information high-level to minimize risk of identifying individual responses. Only the evaluation team working on Thriving Hearts at UNC will see the results. The results will not be viewable to your manager, supervisor, or directors. For an added layer of protection, Thriving Hearts is a partnership between UNC School of Medicine and the Orange County Department of Public Health. Data analysts at UNC School of Medicine are the only people who will have access to the raw data. They will analyze all data and share only de-identified, summary data with Thriving Hearts partners.
This information is going to help the Thriving Hearts Research Team evaluate the impact of Thriving Hearts interventions focused on improving the wellbeing and professional quality of life for those who work in maternity clinics and maternal health environments. It will also help maternal health care teams understand the wellbeing of the workforce generally in the region.
Thriving Hearts will provide program updates throughout the project. Findings will be made available at times throughout the project, and also published in peer-reviewed journals.
Sometimes thinking about stress and trauma, including trauma others around us have experienced, can bring up difficult feelings. This is normal. If you or someone you know feels sad, upset, or down after taking the survey, ask them how you can support them. Maybe it’s just talking through their feelings or taking a moment to breathe. If more support is needed, please call, text, or chat 988 for free, confidential 24/7 mental health support.
There is a small risk of breach of confidentiality for participants, but procedures will be taken to minimize this possibility (explained above). There is potential psychological risk if the health team member feels that any of the questions cause emotional distress. Sometimes thinking about stress and trauma, including trauma others around us have experienced, can bring up difficult feelings. This is normal. If you or someone you know feels sad, upset, or down after taking the survey, ask them how you can support them. Maybe it’s just talking through their feelings or taking a moment to breathe. If more support is needed, please call, text, or chat 988 for free, confidential 24/7 mental health support.
Information about Thriving Hearts
Thriving Hearts is a project that aims to reduce occurrences of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy for 10 counties in North Carolina. Through several approaches, the intervention will be delivered in local health departments and county networks to: 1) improve clinical access to blood pressure monitors, low-dose aspirin, and patient education, 2) focus on training maternity care health teams to maintain healthy professional quality of life, and 3) share resources and offer support to pregnant and birthing people.
The Thriving Hearts Evaluation Team will oversee data analysis and interpretation for the Health Team Survey. The evaluation team includes researchers at the Sheps Center for Health Services Research and the Center for Thriving Communities.
Thriving Hearts is funded by PCORI (Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute), which is a nonprofit organization located in Washington, DC.
