Thinking About Your Baby
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Thinking About Your Baby - a comparative study of depression, maternal caregiving representations, and maternal-fetal relationship quality in substance misusing and healthy mothers.
IRAS ID
231353
Contact name
Imogen Marsh
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
The University of Edinburgh
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 3 months, 12 days
Research summary
Thinking About Your Baby is a cross-sectional questionnaire study. Participants will be recruited from midwifery clinics and via social media. Once they have provided informed consent to participate, participants will be invited to complete a battery of questionnaires collecting information regarding: demographic details; their current alcohol and drug use; their mood; their experience of psychological and social risk in the past; their general attachment style; and their thoughts and feelings about their unborn baby. Analysis will determine whether their are significant relationships between these factors, and whether these relationships differ between women who misuse substances and women who do not.
Participants will also be invited to provide informed consent to have some of their routine medical data made accessible to the Chief Investigator, in order that follow-up information regarding birth outcomes (e.g., birth weight, APGAR score) can be included for additional analysis. Participants may choose not to give consent to share this data but still consent to provide questionnaire data. Participants may also choose to give additional consent to have their details retained by the Chief Investigator in order that they may be invited to participate in future follow-up studies; again, participants may consent to take part in the questionnaire study whilst declining to have their details retained for follow-up contact.
REC name
West of Scotland REC 5
REC reference
17/WS/0233
Date of REC Opinion
13 Dec 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion