Anyone who is currently pregnant or who has had pregnancy or childbearing care in Canada in the last 10 years is welcome to participate in an online survey being conducted by the Birth Place Lab at the University of British Columbia. For more information, click HERE.

The Birth Place Lab at the University of British Columbia is conducting a CIHR-funded national study on people's experiences of care during pregnancy and childbirth in Canada called the RESPCCT Study (Research Examining the Stories of Pregnancy and Childbearing in Canada Today).

The Birth Place Lab (BPL), in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC facilitates community-based participatory research and knowledge translation around equitable access to high quality maternity health care, and support multi-national, multi-disciplinary teams of researchers collaborating on both quantitative and qualitative research projects around health services, experience of care, provider attitudes, interprofessional collaboration, and access to physiologic birth across birth settings.

Anyone who is currently pregnant or who has had pregnancy or childbearing care in Canada in the last 10 years is welcome to participate in this online survey.

What is unique about this study is that a multi-stakeholder team including people who had pregnancy and childbearing experiences from different provinces, territories, backgrounds, identities, and circumstances spent two years working with researchers and healthcare professionals to develop a survey that is person-centered and designed through the lens and perspectives of people with lived experiences.

The survey is voluntary and anonymous, available in 8 languages, and takes about 20 minutes to complete (and does not have to be completed all at one time – the response can be saved partway through for completion later).

The background to the survey is that very little is known about how people experience care during pregnancy and childbirth across Canada, especially among people with various identities, circumstances and backgrounds. The survey is attempt to research the lived experience of pre- and post-partum care to discern whether differences in experiences and outcomes across communities may be linked to access to care, individual health status, and/or the way in which individuals are treated.

The survey was developed using community participatory research techniques. People from diverse backgrounds who had experienced a pregnancy in Canada chose the topics and the questions to ask, working alongside researchers and health workers to co-create and distribute this national online survey.

You may follow this link to learn more about the RESPCCT Study and to participate: www.respcct.ca.