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    SOC-MISC Seminar

    Workshop on miscarriage measurement, 12 May 2025

    Organised by the SOC-MISC team | 12 May 2025 1:30-5pm | INED, room 4.029

    9 Cours des Humanités, 93322 Aubervilliers Cedex

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    Invited speakers (in alphabetical order)

    • Dr Selin Köksal, Assistant Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
    • Dr Joe Strong, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Queen Mary University of London
    • Dr Beth Sully, Principal Research Scientist, Guttmacher Institute 

    SOC-MISC team and partners

    • Dr Heini Väisänen, Tenured Researcher, INED (PI)
    • Dr Marie-Caroline Compans, SOC-MISC researcher, INED
    • Dr Hélène Malmanche, SOC-MISC researcher, INED
    • Dr Katy Keenan, Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews (project partner)
    • Dr Hanna Remes, University Researcher, University of Helsinki (project partner)
    • Anissa Djelassi-Saidani, SOC-MISC project manager, INED

    Workshop programme

    Presentations by invited speakers
    The invited speakers each give a 10-minute presentation discussing the key elements and challenges in miscarriage measurement based on their expertise.

    Prompt questions for discussion
    The second part of the workshop is an informal discussion on how to improve future miscarriage measurement in quantitative surveys and how to use administrative data to study miscarriage. The discussion can draw on (some of) the questions listed below, but is not limited to these topics. 

    *Miscarriage definition

    - by study participants?
    - by researchers?
    - by healthcare professionals?
    - by legislators?
    - Should we give a definition of miscarriage with a survey question? If yes, what kind?

    *Other pregnancies and reproductive events

    - Role of pregnancy recognition in miscarriage awareness and subsequently reporting?
    - What other pregnancy outcomes should we ask about in surveys and does that affect miscarriage reporting? Effect of starting with “how many pregnancies…”?

    *Data quality and comparability

    - What is captured/missing in administrative registers? Can we indirectly identify miscarriages that are not registered as such? Which ICD-10 coded should we include/exclude?
    - Role of ‘over’reporting in surveys (i.e., which pregnancy outcomes respondents may include as miscarriages)? How are miscarriage questions understood by respondents?
    - Can we compare miscarriage data across surveys/countries due to varying (or sometimes lack of) definitions used in data collection?
    - What does miscarriage mean to people in different cultures and why? (E.g. does it depend on fertility levels and timing, other cultural factors..?) Links to reporting/stigma?
    - Are there interviewer effects for miscarriage reporting in surveys?