Evaluation of an online education program for healthcare professionals on best practice management of perinatal deaths: IMPROVE eLearning.

Background: The IMPROVE (IMproving Perinatal Mortality Review and Outcomes Via Education) eLearning, developed by the Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence in partnership with the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand was launched in December 2019. Based on the successful face-to-face program, the eLearning aims to increase availability and accessibility of high-quality online education to healthcare professionals providing care for families around the time of perinatal death, to improve the delivery of respectful and supportive clinical care and increase best practice investigation of perinatal deaths.

Aims: To evaluate participants' reported learning outcomes (change in knowledge and confidence) and overall acceptability of the program.

Evaluation of an online education module designed to reduce stillbirth.

Background: The Safer Baby Bundle (SBB) eLearning is an online education module that addresses practice gaps in stillbirth prevention in Australia. It provides healthcare professionals with evidence-based resources for: smoking cessation; fetal growth restriction; decreased fetal movements; maternal safe going-to-sleep position; and timing of birth for women with risk factors for stillbirth.

Aims: To determine whether participants' reported knowledge and confidence in providing care designed to reduce stillbirth changed following completion of the module.