Peer support during pregnancy and the postnatal period

Published on Friday, 16 October 2015 Post

New research on models of peer support during pregnancy and the postnatal year has been published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. This qualitative study, by NPEU's Jenny McLeish and Maggie Redshaw, is based on interviews with 89 participants and focuses on the perceptions of the trained volunteers who give peer support and the mainly disadvantaged mothers who receive it, exploring their understanding of what peer support is, who a peer supporter is, and the unique nature of the peer support relationship. Read the full paper.