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Impact Of Maternal Depression In Afro Caribbean Children In The UK

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Impact Of Maternal Depression In Afro Caribbean Children In The UK

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Proposal on THE IMPACT OF MATERNALDEPRESSION IN AFROCARIBBEAN CHILDREN INUK
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3Background/ RATIONALE ............................................................................................................3RESEARCH QUESTION ...............................................................................................................4RESEARCH DESIGN ....................................................................................................................4Overview of study design ...........................................................................................................4Ethical issues................................................................................................................................5METHODS .....................................................................................................................................5Literature search strategy.............................................................................................................5Electronic search .........................................................................................................................5Key search terms .........................................................................................................................6Inclusion and exclusion criteria ..................................................................................................6Critical appraisal..........................................................................................................................7PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS ...............................................................................................7Time table....................................................................................................................................7Estimating associated costs..........................................................................................................7Critical analysis of problems.......................................................................................................8CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................92
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INTRODUCTION The proposal is about impact of maternal depression in Afro Caribbean children in UK. Itis required to look into the depth of the reason for which maternal depression is considered to bea taboo in Afro- Caribbean women. There will be analysis of the effects that maternal depressionhas on the attachment, education, behavior etc. in Afro- Caribbean children. Further, the effectsof present research on social practice will also be considered. The proposal for systematic review is structured as follows. A contextual review ofbackground has been provided to give rational for the research. Research questions have beenclearly outlined. Research design has been provided along with the ethical issues. Methods forcarrying out the systematic review on the topic have been proposed. These include literaturesearch strategy, electronic search, key search terms, inclusion and exclusion criteria and criticalappraisal. Lastly, practical considerations have been taken into account. The topic under consideration is significant because maternal depression has tremendousimpact on the growth and development of children (Edge, 2007). Depression is considered to bea taboo among the Afro Caribbean women which restrains them from accessing mental healthservices or obtaining counseling (Greene, Pugh and Roberts, 2008). This exacerbates theproblem of depression among these women which significantly affects the children in a numberof ways. BACKGROUND/ RATIONALE According to the study carried out by Hay and et.al., (2008), ecological theory considersdisease to be an interplay between physical, environmental, psychological, social and behavioralfactors. According to systems theory, the ways in which illness affects and individual and otherinterrelated systems can be assessed by using concepts of micro (individual), mezzo (family) andmacro (community) level interaction (Hay and et.al., 2008). Barker and et.al (2012) conducted astudy on relative impact of maternal depression and associated risk factors on psychopathologyof offspring. The authors measured child diagnoses by using Development and well beingAssessment (DAWBA) (Barker and et.al., 2012).Babatunde and Moreno-Leguizamon (2012) conducted a study on daily and culturalissues of post natal depression in African women immigrants in South East London. The authors3
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