As the preschool years are a formative period for long-term physical and mental health, this
period is recognised as an important window for early effective intervention. Parenting …

Introduction There is increasing international interest in universal, health promoting services
for pregnancy and the first three years of life and the concept of proportionate universalism …

Aims and objectives. To examine the relationships between social support, maternal
parental self‐efficacy and postnatal depression in first‐time mothers at 6 weeks post …

AimTo explore whether changes in parenting self-efficacy after attending a parenting
programme are related to changes in parenting stress and child behaviour …

Aims. This paper reports the development of a tool to measure parenting self‐efficacy as an
aid to evaluating parenting programmes. Background. Whilst there has been increasing …

Background This literature review was commissioned to support the Health Visitor
Implementation Plan 2011-2015: A Call to Action (Department of Health 2011). That …

Title. Testing a parenting programme evaluation tool as a pre‐and post‐course measure of
parenting self‐efficacy Aim. This paper is a report of a study to measure changes in …

Objective. To explore the association of maternal health literacy (MHL), parenting self-
efficacy and early parenting practices among low-income mothers with infants. Design. A …

Positive parenting programs are a key strategy to promote the development of parental
competence. We designed a pilot study based on parental self-efficacy to promote healthy …

The current study investigated how use of various information and communication
technologies (ICTs) was related to social capital and parenting efficacy among parents of …