Study on How Parents' Anticipated Choice of a Doctor at the Maternity Hospital Influences the Newborn's First Post-discharge Consultation

NCT07329192 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2025/0045
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 120
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this observational study is to determine whether, in a population of well-informed parents, choosing a general practitioner at the maternity hospital facilitates the completion of the newborn's first required medical examination within the second week of life. The main question it aims to answer is: Does selecting a general practitioner before leaving the maternity hospital allow the newborn's first medical examination to be completed within the recommended period? Participants will be asked to complete an initial questionnaire, which will be given to them before leaving the maternity hospital, and then a second questionnaire by telephone one month later.

Conditions

Newborn Infant; Newborn

Keywords

infant; newborn; postnatal care (MeSH); general practitioner; physician; primary care; pediatric primary care; Post-discharge Follow-up; Health Services Accessibility

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Timely completion of the newborn's first post-discharge medical examination

  Assessment of whether the newborn's first medical examination after discharge from the maternity hospital is performed within the recommended period (second week of life, between day 8 and day 15). The outcome is measured as a binary variable: completed within the recommended period / not completed within the recommended period.

  at 1 month

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Sociodemographic data of the parents' choice of physician for the newborn's first consultation

  at day 0

• Questions regarding the first post-hospitalization consultation

  at maternity (assessed up to day 7)

• Concordance between the physician designated in maternity and the physician who performed the consultation

  at 1 month

• Factors associated with delayed completion of the newborn's first consultation

  at 1 month

Study Arms (1)

newborn

newborn

Other: Advance Selection of a General Practitioner

Interventions

Advance Selection of a General Practitioner OTHER

This exposure refers to parents selecting a general practitioner for their newborn before discharge from the maternity hospital. It represents a routine-care organizational choice that may influence whether the first post-discharge medical examination is completed within the recommended period. No study-specific procedures or treatments are administered.

newborn

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Healthy term newborns recruited prior to discharge from the maternity hospital. Included infants are healthy term newborns (≥37 weeks of gestation, birth weight \>3000 g) with no antenatal or postnatal pathology requiring hospitalization. Parents or legal guardians must understand the study information and not object to participation.

You may qualify if:

• Term newborn ≥ 37 weeks of gestation
• Birth weight \> 3000 g
• Growth \> 5th percentile according to Fenton curves
• No diagnosed or suspected pathology during antenatal care or the maternity stay
• No postnatal complications requiring temporary hospitalization in the neonatal unit or kangaroo care unit

You may not qualify if:

• Pathology diagnosed or suspected in the newborn during the maternity hospital stay.
• Requirement for temporary hospitalization in a neonatal unit or kangaroo care unit, including but not limited to: neonatal jaundice, abnormal oxygenation or laboratory findings, suspected early-onset bacterial infection, transient respiratory distress requiring more than 2 hours of non-invasive ventilation at birth, monitoring of mother-infant bonding, or maternal treatments during pregnancy necessitating clinical monitoring.
• Language barrier in both parents.
• Parents (legal guardians) informed of the study and having declined participation for themselves and their child.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien: lead

Study Sites (1)

Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien

Corbeil-Essonnes, France, 91100, France

Location

Study Officials

• Marion BATHANY, MD

  Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 8, 2025
• First Posted: January 9, 2026
• Study Start: January 13, 2026
• Primary Completion: March 2, 2026
• Study Completion: March 2, 2026
• Last Updated: March 19, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

FR (1)