APPLE Project
Project Title |
The APPLE Project: A Parenting and Professional Learning Evaluation |
Research Focus: |
Maternal and Child Health |
Funder & Dates |
Public Health Agency (NI) July 2017 - July 2019
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Principal Investigator or Primary Supervisor (if PhD project) |
PI: Dr Jenny McNeill |
Co-Investigators or additional supervisors |
Dr Fiona Lynn, Aideen Gildea, Dr Sharon Millen, Prof. Fiona Alderdice |
Research Fellow(s) or PhD Student |
Dr Lorna Lawther |
Name & Institution of Collaborators |
School of Nursing and Midwifery Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation |
Name of External Partner Organisations |
Belfast HSC Trust, South Eastern HSC Trust, Southern HSC Trust, Western HSC Trust, Northern HSC Trust, Public Health Agency |
Description of Project
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Aim: to evaluate implementation of changes to antenatal care & universal parenting support services as part of The Early Intervention Transformation Programme (EITP). Methods: It is a mixed-methods, multiphase study including a systematic review, a population-based, observational, prospective study using three questionnaires which will be sent to low-risk first time mothers at between 14-20 weeks gestation, 35-40 weeks gestation and 3-months postpartum. The partial economic evaluation will use data from Maternity E-systems to measure the mean difference in cost of care and education. Focus groups will be conducted with Midwives, Health Visitors, Early Years Educators and parents involved in the new universal parenting support services. The study will also include the development of a logic model. Expected Outcome: an understanding of the impact of changes to antenatal care and education on clinical outcomes and insight into the perspectives of key stakeholders of these changes. |
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