Implementing the Maternal Postnatal Attachment Scale (MPAS) in universal services: Qualitative interviews with health visitors.

ABSTRACT: Background: A secure parent-infant relationship lays the foundations for children's development, however there are currently no measurement tools recommended for clinical practice. We evaluated the clinical utility of a structured assessment of the parent-infant relationship (the Maternal Postnatal Attachment Scale, MPAS) in a deprived, multi-ethnic urban community in England. This paper answers the question: what are health visitors' views on the parent-infant relationship, and experiences of piloting the MPAS? It explores the barriers and facilitators to implementation, and complements the paper on psychometric properties and representativeness reported in Dunn et al (2022).   Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 health visitors and data were an

SUBMITTER: Bird PK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9975410 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature