Mother’s and Young Peoples’ Study

Policy and Evidence Briefs

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This policy brief summarises preliminary findings from the Maternal Health Study: an Australian longitudinal study of over 1500 firs time mothers. Almost one in three women in the study reported depressive symptoms between pregnancy and four years postpartum.

Policy Brief #1
Maternal Depression

Policy Brief #2
Health Consequences of Family Violence

This policy brief summarises preliminary findings from the Maternal Health Study: an Australian longitudinal study of over 1500 first time mothers and their firstborn children. One in five mothers experienced emotional and/or physical abuse by an intimate partner in the year after having a baby. This translates to 14,000 Victorian families a year affected by family violence in the course of a child’s first year of life.