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'She come like a sister to me': a qualitative study of volunteer social support for disadvantaged women in the transition to motherhood in England

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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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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1098/rstb.2020.0023

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Nuffield Department of Population Health
Role:
Author
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
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EISSN:
1471-2970
ISSN:
0962-8436
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1174369
Local pid:
pubs:1174369
Deposit date:
2021-05-10

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