Table 4: WazzUp Mama?! Web-based tailored program for pregnant women.

 

Homepage

Self-directed pathways or starting points:

(1) Mood changes - Emotional dips

(2) Mapping risk factors  - Are you in balance?

(3) Emotional wellbeing - I don’t feel well

Information collection

(1) First name

(2) Midwifery practice or post code

(3) Results of screening tests addressing:

      - Personal history and circumstances

      - Emotional wellbeing - case-finding questions*

      - Emotional stamina or perceived burden

      - Maternal distress

      - Coping mechanisms

Personalised feedback

(1) Advice for daily life: a variety of practical tips and tricks [42], including relaxation exercises

(2) Advice about positive ways of coping and alternative ways of effective coping, based on most frequently used coping styles [43-46]

(3) Overview of all relevant caregivers and health initiatives aimed at psychological and emotional wellbeing:

- Self-management resources

- Local individual and group support:

   (i) lay

   (ii) professional

   (iii) alternative

 

Synopsis

 

*Whooley questions - (1) During the past month, have you often been bothered by feeling down, depressed or hopeless? (2) During the past month, have you often been bothered by little interest or pleasure in doing things?