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WIFWU is undertaking a programme of research focused on evaluating new ways of working to support parenting during pregnancy and the first two years of life: 

 

• Multicentre RCT of an intensive home visiting programme to improve parenting in high-risk families
• Systematic review of parenting programmes for children aged 0 - 3 years
• Systematic review of infant massage programmes
• Study of stakeholder perspectives of a parent-infant psychotherapy programme
• Systematic review to identify the universal component of the Child Health Promotion Programme  
• EMPOWER: Empowering parents to promote healthy eating at weaning  
• Mums4Mums: Feasibility RCT of a telephone-based peer-support intervention for mothers with postnatal depression