Dr Phoebe McKenna-Plumley
@phoebemckp.bsky.social
Lecturer & Teaching Fellow in Psychology at Queen's University Belfast. Interested in loneliness, inclusion, wellbeing, lifespan development. She/her.
Reposted by Dr Phoebe McKenna-Plumley
New publication! ✨📃🎉
Check out our consensus paper led by @ruthndwrites.bsky.social, highlighting perinatal loneliness as a critical determinant of maternal mental health and calling for more research, policy attention, and support to address loneliness during pregnancy and early parenthood.
Check out our consensus paper led by @ruthndwrites.bsky.social, highlighting perinatal loneliness as a critical determinant of maternal mental health and calling for more research, policy attention, and support to address loneliness during pregnancy and early parenthood.
Proud to share our new BMJ Open paper on perinatal loneliness—featuring leading researchers + community voices from the UK and beyond. A topic taken seriously in the UK, and still overlooked in the US.
🔗 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5...
#PerinatalMentalHealth #Loneliness
🔗 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5...
#PerinatalMentalHealth #Loneliness
Exploring perinatal loneliness as a key social determinant of perinatal mental ill health in the UK: findings from a multidisciplinary consensus statement exercise that mapped knowledge about measurem...
Objectives New parents are at increased risk of loneliness, which adversely affects parental and infant health and well-being and has been linked to an increased likelihood of parental mental illness....
bmjopen.bmj.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
New publication! ✨📃🎉
Check out our consensus paper led by @ruthndwrites.bsky.social, highlighting perinatal loneliness as a critical determinant of maternal mental health and calling for more research, policy attention, and support to address loneliness during pregnancy and early parenthood.
Check out our consensus paper led by @ruthndwrites.bsky.social, highlighting perinatal loneliness as a critical determinant of maternal mental health and calling for more research, policy attention, and support to address loneliness during pregnancy and early parenthood.