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Author's response to reviews Title: Peer-mentoring for young first-time mothers from areas of socio-economic disadvantage: a qualitative study within a randomised controlled trial Authors:
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| Author | Percy, Andrew Stewart, Moira C. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Title: Peer-mentoring for young first-time mothers from areas of socioeconomic disadvantage: a qualitative study within a randomised controlled trial Dear Editor Thank you for your email of 7 December 2007 re FW:644953695102059-We are grateful to your reviewers for their thorough assessments of our paper and have responded to their comments (referee comments are shown in italics) below. We have also included a statement in the Methods section indicating that informed consent was obtained for the RCT, in addition to a later statement that consent was given by interviewees. The intervention needs to be described in more detail. This has been done by stating the information given to potential participants (pages 5-6) 'Before agreeing to take part they were told that their participation might involve receiving two-weekly visits from a lay person (not a professional health or social care worker) who would be a mother who lived in the same locality as they did and who had at least one young child, and that the visits would be arranged to suit them, would normally take place in their own home and would continue throughout pregnancy and for one year after the child was born. During the visits they would be offered advice about their own and their baby's healthcare and help in accessing professional health and social care services as required. If they agreed to participate their mentor would telephone them as soon as possible after their hospital appointment. Participation would also involve filling in questionnaires about their health, lifestyle and parenting experiences, having an additional ultrasound scan to observe the baby's behaviour at 29 weeks of pregnancy, and allowing researchers to access their infant's medical records and perform a physical examination of the child at one year. This information was given to them in writing and they were invited to ask questions to ensure their understanding.' Were the topics introduced in a structured format, were there specific teaching materials and leaflets that the mentors used? Or was it all based on them remembering information from their teaching sessions? We have now described the training programme in more detail, the sequence of topics introduced is shown in Figure 1 and we have stated that specific teaching materials (handouts and health promotion leaflets) were used (page 7). 'In addition to being given written handouts highlighting the major issues, mentors were given written materials (such as leaflets produced by the Health Promotion Agency, … |
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