Author Identifiers
Judith C. Maechler: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8331-2046
Obed Adonteng-Kissi: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9324-7138
Publication Date
2025
Document Type
Dataset
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
School or Research Centre
School of Arts and Humanities
Grant Number
NHMRC Number : 1069308
Description
The dataset comprises a coding book (Excel), a summary table, and a summary table of the studies included in the research.
Additional Information
The honours thesis aims to review qualitative studies of the personal experiences of postpartum anxiety in women in Australia to decipher the dominant, pervasive societal gender beliefs and views that affect women after having a baby. To achieve this, the research will be guided by a socio-ecological model and critical feminist theory. A qualitative systematic review method incorporating an interpretivist ontological paradigm is suggested to explore Australian qualitative studies between 2010 and 2025. The research articles will be purposefully selected from Australian literature to reflect women’s experiences of PNA. Findings sections of the selected articles will be manually coded via a qualitative content analysis approach. The paper's insights will hopefully encourage a multi-systems approach in future research to efficiently inform more gender-equal social policies, postnatal clinical interventions in Australia, and make recommendations for the social work profession in postnatal mental health.
Research Activity Title
Social Work Honours Thesis - Judith C Maechler
Methodology
Database online search of relevant published research articles The search strategy involved using a combination of key search terms with Boolean operators (AND, OR) in keywords, abstracts or titles as appropriate to each database.
Start of data collection time period
2025
End of data collection time period
2025
Codes
Manual coding was done using Excel and Word. Coding was done both deductively and inductively.
File Format(s)
PDF, Excel
Contact
jmaechle@our.ecu.edu.au
Citation
Maechler, J. C., & Adonteng-Kissi, O. (2025). Social Work Honours Thesis - Judith C Maechler. [Data set]. Edith Cowan University. href="https://doi.org/10.25958/qaxw-7r28