What roles do male partners play in the mothering experiences of women living with mental illness? A qualitative secondary analysis.

Background: Mothers who live with mental illness face diverse challenges. Research suggests that partner support or otherwise is likely to have a crucial influence on mothers' abilities to manage these challenges, yet little is known about how this plays out. In this study, we aimed to explore the roles played by male partners in the mothering experiences of women living with mental illness.

The balancing act: meeting the needs of all children including an adolescent with disabilities.

Background: The aim of this study was to explore parents' experiences and strategies used when meeting the needs of all their children, including an adolescent with disabilities.

Materials And Methods: A qualitative study design was employed. The study was conducted in two phases.

Mothering differently: narratives of mothers with intellectual disability whose children have been compulsorily removed.

Background: Despite the frequency with which mothers with intellectual disability have their children removed, little theoretical or empirical work has understood the mothers' perspectives on this. A few studies have reported mothers' feelings of grief and loss and their sense of powerlessness in the child protection system.

Method: This qualitative study explores the daily life narratives of 7 mothers with intellectual disability following the involuntarily removal of their children.

Family caregivers' perceptions of hospital-based allied health services post-stroke: use of the Measure of Processes of Care to investigate processes of care.

Aim: To investigate family caregiver perceptions of allied health professional processes of care and support in hospital following stroke, and to test an adapted version of the Measure of Processes of Care (MPOC) for its suitability of use in the stroke care setting.

Methods: The first stage involved the adaptation and refinement of the MPOC, designed to measure caregiver perceptions of processes of professional care and support across five care dimensions. The second stage involved mailing out of questionnaires to primary caregivers of stroke survivors.

The Log Handwriting Program improved children's writing legibility: a pretest-posttest study.

Objective: We determined the feasibility and outcomes of the Log Handwriting Program (Raynal, 1990), an 8-week training program based on task-specific practice of handwriting.

Method: We used a pretest-posttest design involving 16 first- and second-grade Australian students. Handwriting training sessions occurred in schools for 45 min per week over 8 weeks, in groups of 2 or 3.

Transition to independent accommodation for adults with schizophrenia.

Objective: The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the process of transition to independent accommodation for people with schizophrenia.

Method: The study employed a grounded theory approach. Multiple semi-structured and responsive e-mails and interviews were conducted with a total of seven participants currently living in independent accommodation.

Pre-partum distress in women with intellectual disabilities.

Background: This study investigates depression, anxiety and stress in pregnant women with intellectual disabilities and/or self-reported learning difficulties, and examines the association between these negative emotional states and perceived support and conflict in the women's interpersonal relationships.

Method: Eight-hundred-and-seventy-eight women attending their first antenatal visit in a socioeconomically disadvantaged area of Sydney, Australia during a 5-month period in 2002 completed a brief questionnaire to identify those with intellectual disabilities (ID) and/or self-reported learning difficulties. These 57 women were then invited to participate in a series of three interviews (two pre- and one post-partum).

Health of mothers with intellectual limitations.

Objective: To investigate the health status of mothers with intellectual limitations.

Method: The health status of 50 mothers with intellectual limitations in metropolitan Sydney was assessed during the baseline assessment phase of a randomised controlled trial of a parent education program.

Results: Self-reported maternal health was significantly worse than women's health in the Australian population.

Promoting health and home safety for children of parents with intellectual disability: a randomized controlled trial.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a home-based intervention targeted to parents with intellectual disability to promote child health and home safety in the preschool years. A total of 63 parents were recruited for the study with 45 parents (40 mothers and 5 fathers) from 40 families completing the project. The research design permitted comparison between the intervention and three alternative conditions with all parents receiving the intervention in an alternating sequence over the life of the project.