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    The pilot and evaluation of a postnatal support Group for Iraqi Women in the year following the birth of their baby

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    Authors
    Rooney, Rosanna
    Kane, Robert
    Wright, B.
    Gent, V.
    Di Ciano, T.
    Mancini, Vincent
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Rooney, R. and Kane, R. and Wright, B. and Gent, V. and Di Ciano, T. and Mancini, V. 2014. The pilot and evaluation of a postnatal support Group for Iraqi Women in the year following the birth of their baby. Frontiers in Psychology. 5 (16): pp. 1-10.
    Source Title
    Frontiers in Psychology
    DOI
    10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00016
    ISSN
    1664-1078
    School
    School of Psychology
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    This article is published under the Open Access publishing model and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. Please refer to the licence to obtain terms for any further reuse or distribution of this work.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46090
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The current study involved conducting a pilot test of a culturally sensitive support group program developed to assist Iraqi women in the year following the birth of their baby (CSSG-B) in Perth, Western Australia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the social validity of the program. It was hypothesized that women involved in the program would find the program to be socially valid and culturally appropriate, and will also report lower levels of depressive symptomatology and higher levels of social support, following the group intervention. Participants were 12 Iraqi Arabic speaking women, who had a child less than 12 months of age. The program was based on Iraqi women's explanatory models (Kleinman, 1978; Di Ciano et al., 2010) of the birth and motherhood experience. Social validity ratings were obtained during the implementation of the program in order to assess the level of acceptability of the intervention. A one-group pre-test-post-test design was used to determine if depressive symptoms had decreased during the course of the intervention and social support had increased. Results indicated that Iraqi Arabic speaking women found the support group intervention acceptable and relevant and there was a significant decrease in scores on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) from pre-test to post-test. These results that the culturally sensitive group intervention was culturally acceptable and was associated with decreased levels of depressive symptomatology.

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