Journal article
'She come like a sister to me': a qualitative study of volunteer social support for disadvantaged women in the transition to motherhood in England
- Abstract:
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This qualitative study explores the ways in which disadvantaged women benefit from social support from a trained volunteer during pregnancy and the postnatal period, using the theoretical frameworks of stress and coping and a multi-dimensional model of social support. Forty-seven mothers took part in semi-structured interviews. The mothers, who had received social support through nine volunteer projects in England, faced many potentially stressful challenges besides having a baby (such as pov...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Royal Society, The Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 376
- Issue:
- 1827
- Article number:
- 20200023
- Publication date:
- 2021-05-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-09-14
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2970
- ISSN:
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0962-8436
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- Copyright holder:
- McLeish and Redshaw
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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