Gaining perspective: Peer mentors’ experiences with an intervention project for mothers with postpartum depression
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study explored the experiences of peer mentor volunteers who participated in an intervention project, Mothers OfferingMentorship and Support (MOMS), for new mothers with postpartum depression (PPD). A descriptive phenomenological approachwas used to capture the meaning and common features of their experiences. Six of the peer mentors who participated inthe MOMS study participated in the current study. Overall, the peer mentors had a positive experience. They felt helpful andderived satisfaction from providing support to other mothers. The general structure of the peer mentoring experience was one ofgaining perspective. Gaining perspective included themes of structuring a common connection, perceived impact on moms andmentors, understanding challenges, and informing future peer mentor programs. Both peer mentors and moms saw the benefitof having PPD support, however, some of the moms had needs that exceeded the scope of the peer mentors’ roles highlightingthe need for access to additional resources.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".