Phillips, Rhiannon http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4256-4598
Copeland, Lauren
Grant, Aimee
Sanders, Julia
Gobat, Nina
Tedstone, Sally
Stanton, Helen
Merrett, Laura
Rollnick, Stephen
Robling, Michael
Brown, Amy
Hunter, Billie
Fitzsimmons, Deborah
Regan, Sian
Trickey, Heather
Paranjothy, Shantini
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Technology Assessment Programme (13/18/05)
Article History
Received: 18 October 2017
Accepted: 29 March 2018
First Online: 11 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All study procedures, including the informed consent process for focus groups and interviews, were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000, and the National Institute for Social Care and Health Research Ethics Service, Wales REC 3 Panel, who provided ethical approval for the study in November 2014 (Reference: 14/WA/1123). Participants in qualitative interviews and focus groups all provided informed consent in writing (women, partners, and peer-supporters) or verbal consent which was audio-recorded (health professionals).
: Billie Hunter’s post is part-funded by the Royal College of Midwifery. Stephen Rollnick is a co-founder of Motivational Interviewing and has authored several texts on the topic. Stephen Rollnick and Nina Gobat both provide Motivational Interviewing training and consultancy. In addition to her research post at Cardiff University, Heather Trickey works as a part-time research manager for the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) charity. All other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
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