Research study: Pregnancy, postpartum and parenthood well-being.

18/06/2023

To all fathers and father figures out there, we wish you a very !

Many thanks to all the fathers who came forward to share their stories of parenthood transition for our research- it's been eye opening! Wishing all of you a beautiful celebration with your loved ones today and everday!🥳

13/05/2023

To all,

On behalf of the PPPW Research Team, we would like to wish all mothers a very happy Mother's Day! 🥰 At the same time, we would like to inform, thanks to the support we have received, all our research studies have *completed* recruitment of participants. We thank you for all your support and feedback! 🙏

09/10/2022

🤰👶🏻👨 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐒! 🤰👨

Researchers from Heriot-Watt University Malaysia and United Kingdom are looking for Malaysian 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 who are currently pregnant/ expecting (32 weeks and above) as part of our study to understand parenthood transitions, coping and support within the domains of motherhood and fatherhood.

Participation in this study is voluntary and entails one interview during pregnancy and one interview at postpartum. As a token of appreciation, cash vouchers will be given to couples who complete their interview sessions with us. All information sharing will be kept strictly confidential.

Interviews are conducted online/phone for COVID-19 safety reasons. Sessions can be conducted in English or Bahasa Malaysia.
For further enquiries, please feel free to drop an email to Lead Researcher: Ms Tharunnia at (tam2001@hw.ac.uk), or message via our page!

If you know a couple currently expecting a child, we appreciate sharing and circulating our posters! Many thanks for supporting our research efforts! 🙂

24/08/2022

🤰CALL FOR MALAYSIAN PARTICIPANTS!🤰

Researchers from Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, Heriot-Watt University & University Malaya Medical Center (UMMC) are recruiting pregnant participants for our study looking at wellbeing and the journey of pregnancy, postpartum and parenthood transitions!

If you fit all the criteria stated in the poster - we are interested to understand your journey! Further information about the research, direct links to our survey or if you want to know about the people behind this research – please visit our project site at:
https://sites.google.com/view/hwum-pregnancystudy/home

Alternatively, you can directly participate in our study via the links below:
English questionnaire: https://hwsml.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5uN3sknylg5ENIV
Bahasa Malaysia questionnaire: https://hwsml.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4TrQ7lOtfF06H5z

If you know of family and friends currently pregnant and might be interested to be a part of our wellbeing study, we would very much appreciate you to share this post, or any of our links.

Many thanks for supporting our research endeavours! :)

23/06/2022

healthcare professionals, this one is for you! 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

For one part of our study, we would like to engage Malaysian healthcare practitioners with experience of working with *pregnant and postpartum mothers/ couples*!

If you are a doctor, psychiatrists, maternity nurse, midwife or a staff at *Klinik Kesihatan Ibu & Anak (KKIA)* - please consider participating in our important study on understanding the coping and support structure for our Malaysian expectant parents demographic!
👪

20/06/2022

🤰CALL FOR MALAYSIAN PARTICIPANTS!🤰

Researchers from Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, Heriot-Watt University & University Malaya Medical Center (UMMC) are recruiting participants for our study looking at wellbeing and the journey of pregnancy, postpartum and parenthood transitions!

If you fit all the criteria stated in the poster - we are interested to understand your journey! Further information about the research, direct links to our survey or if you want to know about the people behind this research – please visit our project site at:
https://sites.google.com/view/hwum-pregnancystudy/home

Alternatively, you can directly participate in our study via the links below:

English questionnaire: https://hwsml.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5uN3sknylg5ENIV

Bahasa Malaysia questionnaire: https://hwsml.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4TrQ7lOtfF06H5z

If you know of family and friends currently pregnant and might be interested to be a part of our wellbeing study, we would very much appreciate you to share this post, or any of our links.

Many thanks for supporting our research endeavours!

08/05/2022

The PPPW Research Team would like to wish all our lovely followers and mothers out there a very Happy Mother's Day!! 🥰

To all our past, present and future expectant mothers/ couples who have chosen to kindly contribute towards our research by providing us first hand insights into your journey into motherhood and parenthood, a huge thank you - we are so appreciative!

Hope you are celebrated today, and everyday! 😊

22/04/2022

🤰👶🏻👨 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐒! 🤰👶🏻👨

Researchers from Heriot-Watt University Malaysia and United Kingdom are looking for Malaysian 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 who are currently pregnant/ expecting as part of our study to understand parenthood transitions, coping and support within the domains of motherhood and fatherhood.

Participation in this study is voluntary and entails one interview during pregnancy and one interview at postpartum. As a token of appreciation, cash vouchers will be given to couples who complete their interview sessions with us. All information sharing will be kept strictly confidential.

Interviews are conducted online/phone for COVID-19 safety reasons. Sessions can be conducted in English or Bahasa Malaysia.

For further enquiries, please feel free to drop an email to Lead Researcher: Ms Tharunnia at (tam2001@hw.ac.uk), or message via our page!

If you know a couple currently expecting a child, we appreciate sharing and circulating our posters! Many thanks for supporting our research efforts! 🙂

17/02/2022

🤰👶🏻👨 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐒! 🤰👶🏻👨

Researchers from Heriot-Watt University Malaysia and United Kingdom are looking for 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 who are currently pregnant/ expecting as part of our study to understand parenthood transitions, coping and support within the domains of motherhood and fatherhood.

Participation in this study is voluntary and entails one interview during pregnancy and one interview at postpartum. All information sharing will be kept strictly confidential. Session can be conducted in English or Bahasa Malaysia. All details provided in posters below.

For further enquiries, please feel free to drop us an email (T.M.S_Ganesan@hw.ac.uk), or message via our page! -Research study: Pregnancy, postpartum and parenthood well-being. If you know a couple currently expecting a child, we appreciate sharing and circulating our posters! Many thanks for supporting our research efforts! :)

24/11/2021

🤰*𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒!*🤰

We are progressing to 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝟐 of our study and looking for more pregnant women who are interested to participate! If you fit all the criterias in the poster below, you are welcomed to join our study! Additionally, we are also specially keen to have pregnant women with gestational hypertension join this study, and share your journey with us.

𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝟐:

1. Participation in this study is voluntary - as a thank you, we will be rewarding cash vouchers for those who complete their participation.
2. Phase 2 includes answering the 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 via link below; AND,
3. Participating in 2 (free) online 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 sessions with clinical hypnotherapist & principal investigator of this study, Dr Zuhrah Beevi. https://www.hw.ac.uk/uk/profiles/teaching/soss/zuhrah-beevi.htm

Directly participate in our study via the links below:

English questionnaire: https://hwsml.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5uN3sknylg5ENIV
Soal selidik Bahasa Malaysia : https://hwsml.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4TrQ7lOtfF06H5z

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫:
1. Only those who have completed the questionnaire and have consented to follow-up, will be contacted by the research team for the hypnosis sessions.
2. If you are not interested in participating in the hypnosis sessions, but are happy to volunteer in answering the questionnaire - please do so, we still need more respondents!
3. Due to the nature of the project, this post is time specific. Any changes will be displayed clearly. Once the study is completed, this post will be removed permanently.

We wish you a safe and smooth pregnancy journey - Many thanks for supporting our research endeavours! :)

22/10/2021

🤰CALL FOR MALAYSIAN PARTICIPANTS!🤰

Researchers from Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, Heriot-Watt University & University Malaya Medical Center (UMMC) are recruiting participants for our study looking at wellbeing and the journey of pregnancy, postpartum and parenthood transitions! As an extension to our previous recruitment, we are now (also) inviting 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 to participate in our study!

If you fit all the criteria stated in the poster - we are interested to understand your journey! Further information about the research, direct links to our survey or if you want to know about the people behind this research – please visit our project site at: https://sites.google.com/view/hwum-pregnancystudy/home

Alternatively, you can directly participate in our study via the links below:
English questionnaire: https://hwsml.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5uN3sknylg5ENIV
Bahasa Malaysia questionnaire: https://hwsml.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4TrQ7lOtfF06H5z

If you know of family and friends currently pregnant and might be interested to be a part of our wellbeing study, we would very much appreciate you to share this post, or any of our links.
Many thanks for supporting our research endeavours!

27/08/2021

Hello everyone! 🙂

Registration for Episode 2 of our Free Lunch Time Talk Series on well-being and coping during pregnancy is now open! This time, we have scheduled the webinar on a weekend (2.30PM on 25th September 2021) so more of you could join in!

For our 2nd episode, do tune in as we learn more about the role of Clinical Hypnotherapy in coping with pregnancy from Dr Zuhrah Beevi, currently an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University Malaysia (HWUM) and also a practicing clinical hynotherapist. We welcome questions during Q&A session at the end of our episode, for any of you with questions and concerns to share with our specialist of the day!

We invite audiences from all walks of life - If you are interested in understanding further about related topics, we are happy to have you join us!

TO REGISTER, please click the link below:
https://forms.gle/ixQfXefZWaA2C2VN7

For circulation and further information, please refer to poster below.
Thank you, and we look forward to meeting all of you (virtually)!

Timing: 25th September 2021 | 2.30 - 3.30PM Venue: ONLINE! Contact: T.M.S_Ganesan@hw.ac.uk (Ms Tharunnia)