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Giving offspring a healthy start: parents' experiences of health promotion and lifestyle change during pregnancy and early parenthoodKristina Edvardsson
Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health, Umea University, SE 901 87 Umea, Sweden
BMC Public Health 11:936. 2011..In 2005, a multisectoral child health promotion programme (the Salut Programme) was launched to further strengthen such efforts...- Mothers' AdvocateS In the Community (MOSAIC)--non-professional mentor support to reduce intimate partner violence and depression in mothers: a cluster randomised trial in primary careAngela J Taft
Associate Professor, Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:178. 2011.... 
PRISM (Program of Resources, Information and Support for Mothers) Protocol for a community-randomised trial [ISRCTN03464021]Judith Lumley
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, La Trobe University, 251 Faraday St, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
BMC Public Health 3:36. 2003..Analysis of the physical and mental health outcomes, by intention to treat, will adjust for the correlated structure of the data...- PRISM (Program of Resources, Information and Support for Mothers): a community-randomised trial to reduce depression and improve women's physical health six months after birth [ISRCTN03464021]Judith Lumley
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, 251 Faraday St, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
BMC Public Health 6:37. 2006..Fewer than one in three seek help in primary care despite frequent health care contacts... - MOSAIC (MOthers' Advocates In the Community): protocol and sample description of a cluster randomised trial of mentor mother support to reduce intimate partner violence among pregnant or recent mothersAngela J Taft
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
BMC Public Health 9:159. 2009..This paper describes the development, design and implementation of a trial of mentor mother support set in primary care, including baseline characteristics of participating women... - The paradox of screening: rural women's views on screening for postnatal depressionSusan J Armstrong
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, 215 Franklin Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:744. 2010..One rural shire in Victoria has been screening all women for postnatal depression at maternal and child health checks for many years. This paper explores the views of women affected by this intervention... - Developing evidence-based maternity care in Iran: a quality improvement studySiamak Aghlmand
Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Poursina Avenue, Tehran, 1417613191, Iran
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 8:20. 2008..Using a before-and-after design our aim was to improve the uptake of selected evidence based practices and more closely attend to identified women's needs and preferences... - Recovery after caesarean birth: a qualitative study of women's accounts in Victoria, AustraliaMichelle A Kealy
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 10:47. 2010..The aim of this paper is to describe women's accounts of recovery after caesarean birth, from shortly after hospital discharge to between five months and seven years after surgery... - The power of social connection and support in improving health: lessons from social support interventions with childbearing womenRhonda Small
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, 215 Franklin Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:S4. 2011.... 
Reduction of maternal depression: much remains to be doneRhonda Small
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
Lancet 370:1593-5. 2007- The performance of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in English speaking and non-English speaking populations in AustraliaRhonda Small
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, 251 Faraday Street, Carlton, Vic, 3053, Australia
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 42:70-8. 2007..It has performed satisfactorily in most validation studies, has proved easy to administer, is acceptable to women, and rates of depression in the range of 10-20% have been consistently found... - Midwife-led debriefing after operative birth: four to six year follow-up of a randomised trial [ISRCTN24648614]Rhonda Small
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, 251 Faraday Street, Carlton Victoria 3053, Australia
BMC Med 4:3. 2006..We aimed to assess longer-term maternal health outcomes in a trial of midwife-led debriefing following an operative birth, given that findings at six months could not rule out a possible adverse effect of debriefing... - Somali women and their pregnancy outcomes postmigration: data from six receiving countriesR Small
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
BJOG 115:1630-40. 2008..This study aimed to investigate pregnancy outcomes in Somali-born women compared with those women born in each of the six receiving countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Norway and Sweden... - PRISM: mounting a community-randomised trial. Establishing partnerships with local governmentRhonda Small
Mother and Child Health Research, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 28:471-5. 2004..Second, we outline the strategies used to recruit communities and to establish the groundwork for ongoing partnerships over the projected six years of the study... - Shared antenatal care fails to rate well with women of non-English-speaking backgroundsR Small
School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Carlton, Vic
Med J Aust 168:15-8. 1998..To compare the views of women from non-English-speaking backgrounds who received antenatal care at a public hospital clinic with those whose care was shared between a public hospital clinic and a general practitioner... - Cross-cultural research: trying to do it better. 1. Issues in study designR Small
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 23:385-9. 1999..To discuss a range of strategies to address the methodological and practical challenges in designing cross-cultural public health studies... - Cross-cultural research: trying to do it better. 2. Enhancing data qualityR Small
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 23:390-5. 1999..To describe the dilemmas for cross-cultural research in translating study instruments and implementing quality assurance methods, drawing on strategies utilised in the Mothers in a New Country (MINC) Study... - Randomised controlled trial of midwife led debriefing to reduce maternal depression after operative childbirthR Small
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia
BMJ 321:1043-7. 2000.... - How useful is the concept of somatization in cross-cultural studies of maternal depression? A contribution from the Mothers in a New Country (MINC) studyR Small
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, 251 Faraday, Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia
J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol 24:45-52. 2003..The MINC study findings thus call into question some common cultural assumptions about depression and demonstrate the importance of designing studies which can put hypothesized cultural differences to the test... - Cross-cultural experiences of maternal depression: associations and contributing factors for Vietnamese, Turkish and Filipino immigrant women in Victoria, AustraliaRhonda Small
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, 251 Faraday Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia
Ethn Health 8:189-206. 2003.... - Mothers in a new country: the role of culture and communication in Vietnamese, Turkish and Filipino women's experiences of giving birth in AustraliaR Small
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Childrens Health, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Women Health 28:77-101. 1999..Maternity care for immigrant women is only likely to improve when barriers to effective communication are addressed and attention is paid to raising standards of care... - Immigrant women's views about care during labor and birth: an Australian study of Vietnamese, Turkish, and Filipino womenRhonda Small
Centre for the Study of Mothers' and Children's Health at La Trobe University, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia
Birth 29:266-77. 2002..Unfortunately, immigrant women were much less likely to experience care that gave them what they wanted... - Mounting a community-randomized trial: sample size, matching, selection, and randomization issues in PRISMLyndsey Watson
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, La Trobe University, Bundoora Victoria, 3083, Australia
Control Clin Trials 25:235-50. 2004..Ultimately, all such studies are a balancing act between selecting the minimum number of communities to detect a meaningful outcome effect of an intervention and the maximum size budget and other resources allow... - Early discharge: no evidence of adverse outcomes in three consecutive population-based Australian surveys of recent mothers, conducted in 1989, 1994 and 2000Stephanie Brown
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 18:202-13. 2004..Testing early discharge policies in well-designed randomised trials remains a priority for developing stronger evidence to inform practice... 
Life with a new baby: how do immigrant and Australian-born women's experiences compare?Mridula Bandyopadhyay
Mother and Child Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 34:412-21. 2010..Our objective was to compare the post-childbirth experiences of Australian-born and immigrant mothers from non-English speaking countries...- Screening for postnatal depression: not a simple taskSusan Armstrong
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 31:57-61. 2007..By protocol, all women were screened at three time points post delivery by maternal and child health nurses. The efficacy of this approach in detecting probable depression was examined and referral pathways analysed... - Association between depression and abuse by partners of women attending general practice: descriptive, cross sectional surveyKelsey Hegarty
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
BMJ 328:621-4. 2004..To explore the association between depression and physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by partners or ex-partners of women attending general practice... - Researching labour and birth events using health information records: methodological challengesMargaret Flood
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, 324 328 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
Midwifery 25:701-10. 2009.... - A hierarchy of evidence for assessing qualitative health researchJeanne Daly
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Carlton, Vic, Australia
J Clin Epidemiol 60:43-9. 2007..The objective of this study is to outline explicit criteria for assessing the contribution of qualitative empirical studies in health and medicine, leading to a hierarchy of evidence specific to qualitative methods... - Study highlighted important issuesRhonda Small
Aust N Z J Public Health 31:286-7. 2007 - Sound critical appraisal of the research literature is vital in assessing the evidence for interventionsRhonda Small
Aust J Midwifery 16:6. 2003 - The essential role of social theory in qualitative public health researchKaren Willis
School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania
Aust N Z J Public Health 31:438-43. 2007..To define the role of social theory and examine how research studies using qualitative methods can use social theory to generalize their results beyond the setting of the study or to other social groups...