Journal article
Mother’s accounts of the impact on emotional wellbeing of organised peer support in pregnancy and early parenthood: a qualitative study.
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The transition to parenthood is a potentially vulnerable time for mothers’ mental health and approximately 9–21% of women experience depression and/or anxiety at this time. Many more experience sub-clinical symptoms of depression and anxiety, as well as stress, low self-esteem and a loss of confidence. Women’s emotional wellbeing is more at risk if they have little social support, a low income, are single parents or have a poor relationship with their partner. Peer support can...
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth Journal website
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 28
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-01-04
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1471-2393
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:668645
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- Local pid:
- pubs:668645
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668645
- Deposit date:
- 2017-01-09
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- Copyright holder:
- J McLeish and M Redshaw
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author(s). 2017. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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