Research
ATTENTION STILLBIRTH WOMEN or those who know someone who has had a stillborn infant:
The MISS Foundation needs your help with what we hope will be one of the first and most comprehensive studies on stillbirth in the U.S. Please pass this information along to your support groups, colleagues, and list servers so that we can reach our goal of 5,000 respondents.
The MOMS study to fight stillbirths
Stillbirth affects more than 4 million women and their babies world wide every year, resulting in lost lives and overwhelming grief for women and their families. A new and first time study called the MOMS (Maternal Observations and Memories of Stillbirth) research study is being conducted by an international group of highly renowned researchers from Oslo University, Norway, and supervision by Harvard, Yale and others.
Despite many obstetrical advances, most of the medical community still lacks basic knowledge on the causes, risk factors, and psychosocial effects of this tragedy.
The study is being sponsored by, the MISS Foundation www.missfoundation.org and facilitated by the International Stillbirth Alliance www.stillbirthalliance.org . These groups, and others around the world, working to inform mothers about how their participation may lead to new answers in this area. The study is completely confidential and takes an average of 35 minutes to complete.
Both women who have experienced stillbirths and those who have experienced a live birth are invited to report their experience through an on-line questionnaire. The objective of the MOMS study is to increase our scientific knowledge of stillbirth in order to reduce the number of stillbirths. While research on stillbirths is intensifying throughout the Western World, collecting and extrapolating data to study from those who actually experience stillbirth is likely to take many years. It is time to begin to identify clues and formulate reasonable hypotheses so that further, more targeted research on stillbirth can provide much needed information.
This is the aim of the MOMS study.
To learn more or participate in the study visit www.momstudy.com .
Please help us fight stillbirth--
