The purpose of the study

The purpose of this study is to discover better ways to care for the psychological wellbeing of mothers, particularly in supporting mothers of babies to better understand themselves and their relationship with their baby during the transition to motherhood.

Please read the following information about the project so that you can decide whether you would like to take part in this research. Please feel free to ask any questions you might have about your involvement in the project.

Participation and withdrawal

To participate you need to have given birth within the last 2 years, aged 18 years or over, and currently living in Australia or New Zealand. Participation in this study is completely voluntary and you are free to withdraw from this study at any time without prejudice or penalty. If you wish to stop participating in any particular aspect of the project, then simply stop and close your browser. If you want to withdraw from the study and not participate any further, please email us and let us know that you want to withdraw (contact the study team at mothercare@uq.edu.au). If you want to withdraw, you can ask us to delete your responses to the questions that you have answered up to that point and not include your responses in our research.