- Abstract:
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Background: Disadvantaged pregnant women and new mothers are at increased risk of psychosocial stress, anxiety and depression. As well as affecting birth outcomes and child development, poor maternal emotional wellbeing can inhibit the development of parenting self-efficacy and successful adjustment to the maternal role. Social support is a protective factor against antenatal and postnatal depression, anxiety and stress, and improves mothers’ confidence in infant care. Commun... Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's Version
- Publisher:
- BMC Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth Journal website
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 19
- Publication date:
- 2019-01-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-12-26
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2393
- Pubs id:
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pubs:957346
- URN:
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uri:f5efce88-cbb3-4099-9001-ed981cd648a6
- UUID:
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uuid:f5efce88-cbb3-4099-9001-ed981cd648a6
- Local pid:
- pubs:957346
- Copyright holder:
- McLeish et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- © The Author(s). 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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