A qualitative study of the utilisation of digital resources in pregnant Chinese migrant women's maternity care in northern England

Digital resources have increasingly become an integral com- ponent of pregnant women’s maternity care in many developed countries ( Lewis et al., 2019 ; Tripp et al., 2014 ; Eysenbach et al., 2014 ; Lupton and Maslen, 2019 ; Slomian et al., 2017 ; Sayakhot and Carolan-Olah, 2016 ). In England, the latest national maternity re- view Better Births (2016) recommends that a digital tool that ‘of- fers women the information they need throughout pregnancy and birth’ to be made available ( NHS England National Maternity Re- view, 2016 ). Follow-up reports, projects and initiatives from the NHS maternity service and Royal College of Midwifery further em- phasize the importance of the use of digital resources in enhancing women’s maternity care experiences through introducing digital medical record, increasing choices and personalization and trans- forming workforce ( NHS, 2018 ; NHS Medway, 2021 ; Health Tech Newspaper, 2021 ; NHS Digital, 2021 ). Since the publication of the National Maternity Review (2016), studies have examined the use of digital resources by general maternity service users in routine and emergency situations ( Mackintosh et al., 2020 ). However, there is a lack of investigation of how migrant pregnant women en- gage with digital tools, technologies and resources ( Bitar and Os- carsson, 2020 ; Villadsen et al., 2016 ), in particular at the interface between personal and professional care ( Mackintosh et al., 2020 ).