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The Phantom Kicks Survey: Subjective Experiences of Foetal Kicks During and After Pregnancy

Creators

  • 1. Monash University
  • 2. University of Tasmania

Description

During pregnancy, a woman will attribute increased abdominal sensations to foetal movement. Surprisingly, many women report anecdotally that they feel kick-like sensations long after the pregnancy. However, this experience had never been reported in the scientific literature. We designed this survey to obtain a first impression of how common these subjective experiences of phantom kicks are in the Australian community. 

Results are reported in:
Sasan et al. (2021). “Phantom Kicks: Women’s subjective experience of fetal kicks after the postpartum period. Journal of Women’s Health, 30 (1), 36-44. http://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2019.8191

Please cite the above paper and this listing in Zenodo when using this material.

  • Sasan et al. (2021). “Phantom Kicks: Women’s subjective experience of fetal kicks after the postpartum period. Journal of Women’s Health, 30 (1), 36-44. http://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2019.8191
  • Sasan, Ward, Nash, Orchard, Farrell, Hohwy, Jamadar (2021). The phantom kicks survey: Subjective experiences of foetal kicks during and after pregnancy. Zenodo doi:10.5281/zenodo.5595552

 

Notes

1. Users of this survey should provide respondents with access to mental health support as part of their research procedure. The survey contains questions that some individuals may find confronting (e.g., questions of miscarriage and abortion). In Sasan et al. (2021) we found a small subset of participants reported that they found phantom kicks a negative experience, which impacted their mental health. We strongly recommend providing access to general mental health, women's mental health, and pregnancy and childbirth-related mental health support when deploying this survey. 2. All users of this survey should obtain the relevant human research ethics approval when using this survey in research.

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Journal article: 10.1089/jwh.2019.8191 (DOI)