Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to B Stokoe.
Health visitors tend not to regard research as a priority, or to see it as a specialist skill. Beverley Stokoe argues that health visitors are best-placed to research their own practice. Here she describes the methodology she used to examine the quality of health visitor interactions with clients.
Many health visitors, GPs and midwives feel frustrated in their attempts to help women suffering from postnatal depression, due to a lack of consensus concerning diagnosis and treatment. Mary McClarey and Beverley Stokoe outline how an awareness that these and other women's mental health needs were not being met led to the launch of the Oxford city postnatal depression strategy in April.
In Oxford a multi-agency joint breast feeding initiative group provides an effective forum for co-ordinating activities to improve midwifery and health visiting support for local breastfeeding mothers. Beverley Stokoe and colleagues describe the group's role in identifying new ways to support mothers in the critical first weeks.
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