A complex postnatal mental health intervention: Australian translational formative evaluation.

Reducing the burden of postnatal maternal mental health problems is an international public health priority. We developed What Were We Thinking (WWWT), a psychoeducation programme for primary postnatal health care that addresses known but neglected risks. We then demonstrated evidence of its effects in a before-and-after controlled study in preventing maternal postnatal mental health problems among women without a psychiatric history participating in the intervention compared to usual care (AOR 0.

The growth of maternal-fetal emotional attachment in pregnant adolescents: a prospective cohort study.

Study Objective: To describe self-reported maternal-fetal emotional attachment in adolescent women over the course of pregnancy, compare it with adult pregnant women, and identify risk factors for poor attachment.

Design: A prospective cohort study.

Setting: Young mothers' clinics in 2 public hospitals in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia.

Are adolescents' decisions about prenatal screening for Down syndrome informed? A controlled, prospective study.

Study Objective: Maternal serum screening is routinely offered to pregnant women in public hospitals in Victoria, Australia, regardless of their age. The aim of this study was to determine whether pregnant adolescents are less likely to make informed choices about undertaking this test than adult pregnant women.

Design: Controlled, prospective design.

Innovative psycho-educational program to prevent common postpartum mental disorders in primiparous women: a before and after controlled study.

Background: Universal interventions to prevent postnatal mental disorders in women have had limited success, perhaps because they were insufficiently theorized, not gender-informed and overlooked relevant risk factors. This study aimed to determine whether an innovative brief psycho-educational program for mothers, fathers and first newborns, which addressed salient learning needs about infant behaviour management and adjustment tasks in the intimate partner relationship, prevented postpartum mental health problems in primiparous women.

Methods: A before and after controlled study was conducted in primary care in seven local government areas in Victoria, Australia.