Women’s responses to postnatal self-report mood and experience measures: does anonymity make a difference?

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Description: This study aimed to investigate whether endorsement of “difficulty coping” questions on two self-report measures would be affected by whether or not women had to put their name on the questionnaires. Most of the health professionals questioned in a small survey expected that the anonymous condition would result in more “honest” responding by women—that is, there would be a higher rate of women admitting to not coping in the anonymous condition. However, the results suggested that anonymity made no difference.

Type: Report : None

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Collection : Maternity: Research

Collection : PIMH: Research

Collection : PIMH: Postnatal depression

Author

Stephen Matthey

Contributors

Tracey White

Sarah Rice

Publishing

Published by: Archives of Women's Mental Health

Published date: Tuesday, 9th November 2010 00:00:00

Subject

Unrefined: perinatal and infant mental health

Keywords (National Public Health Language):

BABIES

CARERS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

CHILDREN

INFANTS

MENTAL HEALTH

POSTNATAL DEPRESSION

RESEARCH METHODS

SURVEYS

WOMEN

Category (Government Category List):

CARERS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

HEALTH

MENTAL HEALTH

WOMEN

Other

Source: Archives of Women's Mental Health. Vol 13, No. 6, pp.477-484, Dec 2010. DOI: 10.1007/s00737-010-0159-1

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