British Pakistani women's lived experiences of Postnatal Depression and help-seeking from Perinatal Mental Health services

Javed, Sabrina ORCID: 0000-0001-7458-2363 (2024). British Pakistani women's lived experiences of Postnatal Depression and help-seeking from Perinatal Mental Health services. University of Birmingham. Clin.Psy.D.

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Abstract

This thesis is submitted by Sabrina Javed in partial fulfilment for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Birmingham. The thesis is comprised of four sections. The first section is a meta-ethnography which aims to review South Asian women’s experience of perinatal mental illness and help-seeking in the United Kingdom. The second section is a qualitative empirical study which uses interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore British Pakistani women’s lived experience of postnatal depression and help-seeking from perinatal mental health services. Both the meta-ethnography and the empirical research study have clear implications for the culturally sensitive support that British South Asian/Pakistani women with perinatal mental illness/postnatal depression should be offered by healthcare professionals. Finally, the third and fourth sections are comprised of two press-release documents which provide an accessible summary of the findings from both the meta-ethnography and the empirical research study.

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Thesis (Doctorates > Clin.Psy.D.)

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Doctorates > Clin.Psy.D.

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