The MATRIx Study

Congratulations to Dr Rebecca Webb who won Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the City St George's Health and Medical Sciences research day, in part for her work on MATRIx!

It is World Mental Health Day, and we want to promote awareness of mental health difficulties in everyone across the world, including those who are experiencing perinatal mental health difficulties #maternalmentalhealth #perinatalmentalhealth #WorldMentalHealthDay @WMHDay

Our Perinatal Mental Health Roadmap calls for urgent action to end the postcode lottery in perinatal mental health care across the UK 💙 Read more here: buff.ly/YKkUit7 #PerinatalMentalHealth #WorldMentalHealthDay

The MAP study was a programme of research on how to screen for anxiety in pregnancy and after birth in an effective and acceptable way. The summary of findings has just been published 👇🏻

Towards a consensus definition of maternal wellbeing: a scoping review sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We just had the opportunity to present at a workshop for The First 1000 days in the Nordic Countries. first1000days.is/about-the-proj…. Thank you Itla for organising 😀itla.fi/en/front-page/

We are now recruiting for MATRIx 2. Please share or email matrix2@city.ac.uk to take part! #HomertonHealthcareNHSTrust #PPI #PPCIE #ELFT #NHS #Perinatalmentalhealth #maternalmentalhealth #religion #faith #serviceimprovement #patientparticipantinvolvement

Our website has been updated to incorporate MATRIx 2: matrixstudy.org/matrix2

Our full report from MATRIx 1 is now available to read online: journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/KQFE0107/… #perinatalmentalhealth #maternalmentalhealth #recommendationsforpractice

We are thrilled to announce that we have received funding from the @NIHRARCs North Thames to carry out MATRIx 2! We will be working with women and birthing people to co-design an accessible, culturally sensitive, perinatal mental health care pathway.

Exciting things are coming next year for the MATRIx Study so watch this space! See you in 2024!

Have you experienced #perinatalocd and been on a mother and baby unit (MBU)? We are trying to understand best practice for supporting mums with #ocd on MBUs. @maternalocd @NatMatVoicesorg

Our team from @YorkPsychology are conducting research on how women feel about their internal bodily sensations during #pregnancy, and their bodily experience. If you are pregnant we would really appreciate your invovlement. bit.ly/pregnancy-scale Please share!

Today is World Mental Health and we want to mark this day by raising awareness of all mental health, including perinatal mental health #worldmmhday #perinatalmentalhealth #maternalmentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters

A follow up post to our previous post. Here we explain what barriers and facilitators occur at different stages of the care pathway and at different levels. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33838118/ #perinatalmentalhealth #maternalmentalhealth #healthcare #mentalhealthcare #barriers #facilitators

What helps or prevents services from putting perinatal mental health care into place? Our first publication looked at this. Read the full paper here: openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/2553… #perinatalmentalhealth #pregnancy #maternalmentalhealth #postnatalsupport #postnatal #postpartum