Meg Wiggins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5750414 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Meg Wiggins |
| NOMBRES | Meg |
| APELLIDO | Wiggins |
| FIRMA | WIGGINS M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1443-2456 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Fifty Years of ‘Becoming a Mother’
Whilst theories of social change are mainstays of the sociological discipline, work on how to actually study the same research question over time is less developed. In this article we discuss some of the methodological, practical and ethical challenges of carrying out a research project over a period of 50 years. The landmark project – 50 Years of Becoming a Mother – examines continuities and changes in women’s transition to first-time motherhood…
Co-designed and co-delivered place-based community interventions to reduce inequity in early initiation of antenatal care
BACKGROUND: Early initiation of antenatal care provides timely screening, advice and support. Inequities in early care initiation exist in high-income countries, but there is scant evidence on effective interventions. The community REACH (Research for Equitable Antenatal Care and Health) trial aimed to assess the effectiveness of co-produced place-based interventions to strengthen community support for early care initiation. METHODS: Matched-pair…
Improving Diversity in Recruitment
INTRODUCTION: Our ability to address inequities in health outcomes is hampered by the under-representation of underserved groups in research. Research exploring this topic has focused on observational studies in the American context. This is a pivotal concern for maternity research in the UK as perinatal outcome variables vary by ethnicity, socioeconomic and linguistic background. This paper reports the findings of an analysis of the diversity ac…
Effects of the Learning Together intervention on bullying and aggression in English secondary schools (INCLUSIVE)
BACKGROUND: Bullying, aggression, and violence among children and young people are some of the most consequential public mental health problems. We tested the Learning Together intervention, which involved students in efforts to modify their school environment using restorative practice and by developing social and emotional skills. METHODS: We did a cluster randomised trial, with economic and process evaluations, of the Learning Together interve…
Effectiveness of a social support intervention on infant feeding practices
BACKGROUND: To assess whether monthly home visits from trained volunteers could improve infant feeding practices at age 12 months, a randomised controlled trial was carried out in two disadvantaged inner city London boroughs. METHODS: Women attending baby clinics with their infants (312) were randomised to receive monthly home visits from trained volunteers over a 9-month period (intervention group) or standard professional care only (control gro…
Taking a pro-choice perspective on promoting inclusion of teenage mothers
This paper argues that New Labour’s policy on combating social exclusion is dominated by a discourse of integrating the `excluded' into a skills-based economy through their participation in education and training. An attempt to broaden this one-dimensional approach, and explore its limitations, by using a wider social-economic perspective that takes account of gender and class issues, is made in relation to the Sure Start Plus programme. This pro…
Postnatal support for mothers living in disadvantaged inner city areas
Study objective: To evaluate the effect of two forms of postnatal social support for disadvantaged inner city mothers on maternal and child health outcomes. Design: Randomised controlled trial with economic and process evaluations and follow up at 12 and 18 months. The two intervention groups received either the offer of a year of monthly supportive listening home visits by a support health visitor (SHV), or a year of support from community group…
Including Culturally Diverse Samples in Health Research
Procedures can be developed for recruiting people with diverse cultural backgrounds to take part in research. This helps to address the issue of possible bias in generalizing research findings by increasing external validity, and respects the ethic that everyone should have the right to be eligible for inclusion in research
Using Random Allocation to Evaluate Social Interventions
Although widely accepted in medicine and health services research, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are often viewed with hostility by social scientists, who cite a variety of reasons as to why this approach to evaluation cannot be used to research social interventions. This article discusses the three central themes in these debates, which are those of science, ethics, and feasibility. The article uses three recent U.K. trials of social inter…
Using Random Allocation to Evaluate Social Interventions
Although widely accepted in medicine and health services research, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are often viewed with hostility by social scientists, who cite a variety of reasons as to why this approach to evaluation cannot be used to research social interventions. This article discusses the three central themes in these debates, which are those of science, ethics, and feasibility. The article uses three recent U.K. trials of social inter…
Including Culturally Diverse Samples in Health Research
Procedures can be developed for recruiting people with diverse cultural backgrounds to take part in research. This helps to address the issue of possible bias in generalizing research findings by increasing external validity, and respects the ethic that everyone should have the right to be eligible for inclusion in research
Effectiveness of a social support intervention on infant feeding practices
BACKGROUND: To assess whether monthly home visits from trained volunteers could improve infant feeding practices at age 12 months, a randomised controlled trial was carried out in two disadvantaged inner city London boroughs. METHODS: Women attending baby clinics with their infants (312) were randomised to receive monthly home visits from trained volunteers over a 9-month period (intervention group) or standard professional care only (control gro…
Postnatal support for mothers living in disadvantaged inner city areas
Study objective: To evaluate the effect of two forms of postnatal social support for disadvantaged inner city mothers on maternal and child health outcomes. Design: Randomised controlled trial with economic and process evaluations and follow up at 12 and 18 months. The two intervention groups received either the offer of a year of monthly supportive listening home visits by a support health visitor (SHV), or a year of support from community group…
Co-designed and co-delivered place-based community interventions to reduce inequity in early initiation of antenatal care
BACKGROUND: Early initiation of antenatal care provides timely screening, advice and support. Inequities in early care initiation exist in high-income countries, but there is scant evidence on effective interventions. The community REACH (Research for Equitable Antenatal Care and Health) trial aimed to assess the effectiveness of co-produced place-based interventions to strengthen community support for early care initiation. METHODS: Matched-pair…
Including Culturally Diverse Samples in Health Research
Procedures can be developed for recruiting people with diverse cultural backgrounds to take part in research. This helps to address the issue of possible bias in generalizing research findings by increasing external validity, and respects the ethic that everyone should have the right to be eligible for inclusion in research
Using Random Allocation to Evaluate Social Interventions
Although widely accepted in medicine and health services research, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are often viewed with hostility by social scientists, who cite a variety of reasons as to why this approach to evaluation cannot be used to research social interventions. This article discusses the three central themes in these debates, which are those of science, ethics, and feasibility. The article uses three recent U.K. trials of social inter…
Postnatal support for mothers living in disadvantaged inner city areas
Study objective: To evaluate the effect of two forms of postnatal social support for disadvantaged inner city mothers on maternal and child health outcomes. Design: Randomised controlled trial with economic and process evaluations and follow up at 12 and 18 months. The two intervention groups received either the offer of a year of monthly supportive listening home visits by a support health visitor (SHV), or a year of support from community group…
Taking a pro-choice perspective on promoting inclusion of teenage mothers
This paper argues that New Labour’s policy on combating social exclusion is dominated by a discourse of integrating the `excluded' into a skills-based economy through their participation in education and training. An attempt to broaden this one-dimensional approach, and explore its limitations, by using a wider social-economic perspective that takes account of gender and class issues, is made in relation to the Sure Start Plus programme. This pro…
Effectiveness of a social support intervention on infant feeding practices
BACKGROUND: To assess whether monthly home visits from trained volunteers could improve infant feeding practices at age 12 months, a randomised controlled trial was carried out in two disadvantaged inner city London boroughs. METHODS: Women attending baby clinics with their infants (312) were randomised to receive monthly home visits from trained volunteers over a 9-month period (intervention group) or standard professional care only (control gro…
Effects of the Learning Together intervention on bullying and aggression in English secondary schools (INCLUSIVE)
BACKGROUND: Bullying, aggression, and violence among children and young people are some of the most consequential public mental health problems. We tested the Learning Together intervention, which involved students in efforts to modify their school environment using restorative practice and by developing social and emotional skills. METHODS: We did a cluster randomised trial, with economic and process evaluations, of the Learning Together interve…
Improving Diversity in Recruitment
INTRODUCTION: Our ability to address inequities in health outcomes is hampered by the under-representation of underserved groups in research. Research exploring this topic has focused on observational studies in the American context. This is a pivotal concern for maternity research in the UK as perinatal outcome variables vary by ethnicity, socioeconomic and linguistic background. This paper reports the findings of an analysis of the diversity ac…
Fifty Years of ‘Becoming a Mother’
Whilst theories of social change are mainstays of the sociological discipline, work on how to actually study the same research question over time is less developed. In this article we discuss some of the methodological, practical and ethical challenges of carrying out a research project over a period of 50 years. The landmark project – 50 Years of Becoming a Mother – examines continuities and changes in women’s transition to first-time motherhood…
Co-designed and co-delivered place-based community interventions to reduce inequity in early initiation of antenatal care
BACKGROUND: Early initiation of antenatal care provides timely screening, advice and support. Inequities in early care initiation exist in high-income countries, but there is scant evidence on effective interventions. The community REACH (Research for Equitable Antenatal Care and Health) trial aimed to assess the effectiveness of co-produced place-based interventions to strengthen community support for early care initiation. METHODS: Matched-pair…
Medicine (6 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Randomized controlled trial (5 obras) · Disadvantaged (4 obras) · Intervention (counseling) (4 obras) · Nursing (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Population (4 obras) · Medical education (3 obras) · Social Psychology (3 obras)