Small 2000.
| Methods | Randomisation: Computer generated telephone ransomisation Allocation concealment: Adequate Exclusion after randomisation: Unclear | |
| Participants | Setting: 908 women on postnatal ward, large Maternity Hospital, Australia Inclusion: women who had given birth by LSCS, forceps or vacuum extraction. Excluded: women who had not had operative births, stillbirths or those who had babies weighing <1500gms, those with insufficient english, those ill themselves, very ill babies and those whose private obstetrician refused access | |
| Interventions | Comparison: Debriefing 'provided women with the opportunity to discuss labour, birth and post‐delivery events and experiences. +pamphlet on sources of other assistance of 1 hour versus Brief visit from midife to give out pamplet. | |
| Outcomes | EPDS SF‐36 | |
| Notes | No baseline measures | |
| Risk of bias | ||
| Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
| Allocation concealment? | Low risk | A ‐ Adequate |