Outcomes will include parenting competence and self-efficacy (primary outcomes), maternal-infant attachment, maternal social support, role satisfaction and mental health, infant social and emotional development, and patterns of service use by mothers and infants (secondary outcomes).
Secondary outcomes include the quality of mother-infant relationships, maternal social support, role satisfaction and maternal mental health, infant social-emotional and language development, and patterns of service utilisation.
Among rich countries, those that are more unequal appear to have more mental illness, infant mortality, obesity, high school dropouts, teenage births, homicides, and so on.
Women are quick to say that men are pigs, unfaithful and can't ask for directions when driving; they take glee in findings that prove men are more prone to mental retardation, infant mortality and adolescent immaturity and are quick to crow about women's higher pain-thresholds and greater ability to multi-task (as if this proves that women are the stronger sex).
The scope of the guidelines, under four broad themes (maternal health, maternal mental health, infant health and breastfeeding) is summarised in Table 1.
Direct comparisons of the scope of the guidelines within four themes (maternal health, maternal mental health, infant health and breastfeeding) were tabulated by one author (CH) and then checked by other authors to ensure they were correct.
The aim of the Integrated Family Delivered Neonatal Care (IFDC) project is to improve parent-experience, parent-infant bonding, parental mental health, and infant health outcomes by pioneering a new care model at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust based on international evidence.
Gavin Moorghen, professional officer, British Association of Social Workers: Infant mental health is an essential aspect of human growth and development and there should be recognition that mental health needs are present from conception and through to adulthood.
We will be talking about: How can public services work together on infant mental health?
Informed by this understanding, infant mental health seeks to improve parent-child relationships and enable nurturing care.
