title: Mothers' perceptions of community health professional support.
abstract: This qualitative study aimed to explore mothers' experiences of the support they received from community health professionals. Every third mother was selected from an NHS Trust's database of women whose health visitors had used the Solihull Approach. Forty-two women were sent information packs and consent forms. Nine mothers who returned consent forms were interviewed. The interview transcripts were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The results expand on previous research and contribute additional ideas to the existing evidence base. The findings explore the concepts of trust, expertise and understanding within the working partnership. In addition, the results address mothers' need for reliability, and a preference for professionals who understood women's beliefs about what it means to be a 'good mother'. The results and recommendations are pertinent to those community health professionals who work in the area of early childhood intervention, including practitioners who use the Solihull Approach.
authors: Solihull NHS Care Trust.
authors: Helena
authors: H
authors: Maunders
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Giles
authors: Hazel
authors: H
authors: Douglas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003150:Community Health Workers; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom