Perinatal Mental Health Survey

Your views will help to develop local Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health Services.

We would like to hear from all women and their families who live in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire who have experienced all types of mental health problems throughout pregnancy or up until your baby turned one. Your experience needs to be within the last five years.

We would like to hear your views of what support helped during this period and what could have been better so that we can help shape and develop Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health Services in our area that meets the needs of local women and families. Perinatal mental health problems are those which occur during pregnancy or in the first year following the birth of a child, they affect up to 20% of women and cover a wide range of conditions.

Filling in the survey and GDPR

Our survey should take less than ten minutes to complete. Your answers will remain anonymous and will be stored to use within our final report. If you choose to leave an email address this will be stored on a password protected computer and used to update you on the development of the project and to inform you about further engagement opportunities. You can request for any stored data to be removed through emailing us at any time. We appreciate that some of the questions may mean that you have to recall upsetting or distressing events. You are of course free to close this survey or skip questions at any point. Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. If you need immediate mental health support please call 01724 382000 (Scunthorpe) 01472 252366 (Grimsby) or 01482 301701 (Hull and East Riding).

Please return your completed survey to the person who gave you the survey. To arrange collection of completed surveys please email perinatal@heymind.org.uk or post to Perinatal Team, Hull and East Yorkshire Mind, Wellington House, 108 Beverley Road, Hull, HU3 1YA. Thank you.

Further Information

If you would like any more information or are interested in having further involvement with the development of the Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health Service through speaking about your experiences, please email perinatal@heymind.org.uk. For further information about the support that Hull and East Yorkshire Mind offers, please contact the information line on 01482 240133.

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* 1. Who are you?

Birth mum

Partner

Relative

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* 2. Please could you tell us the first half of your post code - this is to ensure we collect a range of responses from the whole area.

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* 3. What stage of the perinatal journey are you or your partner/relative at?

1st trimester of pregnancy (0-12 weeks)

2nd trimester of pregnancy (13-28 weeks)

3rd trimester of pregnancy (29-40+ weeks)

Baby aged 0-3 months

Baby aged 3-6 months

Baby aged 6-9 months

Baby aged 9-12 months

My/their youngest child is 1-5

Bereavement by miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death

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* 4. Please could you tell us which mental health problems you or your partner/relative have experienced- tick all which apply.

Anxiety

Perinatal Anxiety

Generalised Anxiety Disorder

Intrusive Thoughts

Panic Disorder

Perinatal Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Birth Trauma

Phobias

Tokophobia (Fear of Birth)

Depression

Antenatal Depression

Postnatal Depression

Postpartum Psychosis

Psychosis

Bipolar

Mood Problems

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Emotional Difficulties

Eating Disorder

Personality Disorder

Schizoaffective Disorder

Schizophrenia

Self Harm

Suicidal thoughts

Other (please specify)

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* 5. Did you or your partner/relative access support for mental health problems during pregnancy or up until your baby turned 1?

Yes

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* 6. Did you access the Mums Matter peer support programme?

Yes

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* 7. Do you feel you had enough information about where to get help or support for you or your partner/relatives mental health difficulties throughout pregnancy or up until your baby turned 1?

Yes, definitely

Some, but not enough

No not really

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* 8. What support did you find most helpful and how did it help? This can include any support from any person, service or health professional that supported you or your partner/relative while experiencing mental health difficulties throughout pregnancy or up until your baby turned one.

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* 9. Could you tell us about any support that you found unhelpful or that could have been better while experiencing mental health difficulties around pregnancy and the post-natal period?

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* 10. If you didn't access any support for your or your partner/relatives mental health difficulties, could you tell us a little bit about why and what could have made support easier to access?

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* 11. We would like to hear your ideas of how you or your partner/relative could have been better supported whilst experiencing mental health problems throughout pregnancy or the postnatal period. Is there anything specific you would like to have seen? This could include support specifically for partners or relatives of the person experiencing mental health difficulties.

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* 12. Is there anything else you would like to add or share in relation to the support you or your partner/relative received?

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* 13. Are you happy for us to use anonymous quotes from your answers within our final report?

Yes

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* 14. Would you like to hear about opportunities for further involvement in the development of the Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health Service?

Yes

If Yes, please leave your email address here

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* 15. Please leave an email address if you would like further updates about our project and to hear about up and coming events, peer support and engagement opportunities or for feedback relating to this survey.

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* 16. Which age bracket do you fall into?

Under 18

18-24

25-34

35-44

45 or over

prefer not to say

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* 17. How would you describe your sexual orientation?

Heterosexual

Gay or Lesbian

Bisexual

Asexual

Pansexual

Other (please specify)

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* 18. What is your ethnicity?

African

Arab

Asian British

Bangladeshi

Black British

Carribean

Gypsy or Irish Traveler

Indian

White British

Any other white background

Any other mixed background

Any other Black background

Prefer not to say

Any other ethnic background

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* 19. Do you consider yourself to have a disability?

Yes

Prefer not to say