Trial of Healthy Relationship Initiatives for the Very Early years (THRIVE)
THRIVE was funded by the National Institute for Health Research and was led by Professor Marion Henderson, then University of Glasgow, now University of Strathclyde. It was one of the first rigorous evaluations of parenting interventions in the UK, designed to promote mother-infant wellbeing and reduce maltreatment amongst mothers-to-be with additional health and social care needs, as a result of poverty, mental illness, substance use, domestic violence and/ or homelessness.
The ethnographic process evaluation examined whether, how, for whom and in what contexts, Mellow Bumps (MB) and Enhanced Triple P for Baby (ETPB) worked, or not, for parents. Most who participated in the study were marginalised mothers, whose voices are seldom heard in research. We spent four years building relationships with them to understand how ordinary maternity and other services, plus these interventions, worked in the wider context of their lives.
Dr Rosaleen O'Brien 