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Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria

From: Swedish massage as an adjunct approach to Help suppOrt individuals Pregnant after Experiencing a prior Stillbirth (HOPES): a convergent parallel mixed-methods single-arm feasibility trial protocol

Inclusion criteria

Pregnant individuals 18 years of age or greater who have experienced a stillbirth or termination for medical reasons (TFMR) from 20 weeks of gestation in a previous pregnancy

Participants must be less than 30 weeks of gestation

Participants must be able to attend intervention visits at one of the study pregnancy massage therapists’ clinics located within Australia

Be able to complete the intervention visits within in a 4-month period

Non-inclusion criteria

Potential participants will be excluded if their schedule will not allow them to receive the study treatments in the allocated time frame