“I would have said ‘bad news’ but now I say ‘different news”: Mixed methods evaluation of a communication skills training for healthcare professionals in the first 1000 days of life

• Esther Mugweni ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: MugweniE@liverpool.ac.uk

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems, University of Liverpool, Institute of Population Health, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Public Health Wales, 2 Capital Quarter, Cardiff, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3292-3235

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• Tamsyn Eida,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Kent, Centre for Health Service Research, Canterbury, Kent, England

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• Tracy Pellat-Higgins,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Kent, Centre for Health Service Research, Canterbury, Kent, England

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• Sabrena Jaswal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Government of Nova Scotia, Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration, Skills and Learning Branch, Floor, Maritime Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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• Melita Madden,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Touchstone, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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• Angela Emrys-Jones,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Down Syndrome Policy Group, Tunbridge Wells, England

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• Sally Kendall

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Kent, Centre for Health Service Research, Canterbury, Kent, England, Touchstone, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2507-0350

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