PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bohao Wu
AU  - Kendall J Arslanian
AU  - Kate Nyhan
AU  - Sarah Taylor
AU  - Veronika Shabanova
AU  - Bethel Muasau-Howard
AU  - Nicola L Hawley
TI  - Preterm birth among Pacific Islander women and related perinatal outcomes: a scoping review protocol
AID  - 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050483
DP  - 2021 Nov 01
TA  - BMJ Open
PG  - e050483
VI  - 11
IP  - 11
4099  - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/11/e050483.short
4100  - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/11/e050483.full
SO  - BMJ Open2021 Nov 01; 11
AB  - Introduction Infants born alive <37 weeks are classified as premature. The global estimate of preterm birth in 2014 was 10.6%, and it is the leading cause of death of children under the age of 5 years. Preterm birth disproportionately affects women of minority populations, yet knowledge about the incidence and associated outcomes among Pacific Islanders is limited. The objectives of this scoping review are to identify studies that describe risk factors, maternal-child health outcomes and existing interventions to prevent preterm birth among Pacific Islanders, and to summarise the barriers and facilitators to decrease the burden.Methods and analysis We will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis for scoping reviews and the Preferred Reporting Items for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) to conduct this scoping review. The Covidence web application will be used for data management and consensus review. We will search on MEDLINE ALL (Ovid), EMBASE (Ovid), Web of Science Core Collection (as licensed at Yale), the Cochrane Library, CINAHL (EBSCOhost) and two non-indexed regional journals (Pacific Journal of Reproductive Health and Pacific Health Dialog). Title-abstract and full-text screening of eligible studies will be performed by two authors, and data will be extracted by the first author. Outcomes extracted will be presented using evidence mapping.Ethics and dissemination Findings will drive suggestions for new data collection needed to fill knowledge gaps and improve future study designs to decrease the burden of preterm birth among Pacific Islanders. There are no ethical concerns. This protocol will be disseminated in related peer-reviewed journals.