Table 1 Included studies of lone parents’ experience of compulsory welfare to work
From: Lone parents, health, wellbeing and welfare to work: a systematic review of qualitative studies
Study papers | Country | Year | Data collection | Recruitment | Sample no. | Focus of paper(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Zealand | 2001 | Face to face interviews | All eligible claimants in study area invited | 120 | 2002, 2004: impact of poor health on gaining and maintaining employment | |
2002: demands of meeting parenting, welfare and work requirements | ||||||
Breitkreuz et al. 2010 [27] | Canada | 2001, 2002 | Face to face interviews | Via social service agencies, employability programmes and snowballing | 17 | Impact of unpaid domestic duties and employment for welfare to work lone parents |
Critelli et al. 2010 [38] | USA | Prior to 2007 | Telephone interviews | Eligible claimants on foster agency lists | 100 | Impact of welfare to work policies on lone foster parents |
Good Gingrich 2010 [39] | Canada | 2006 - 2010 | Face to face interviews (peer) | Purposive sampling | 42 | “lone mothers’ experiences of the design, delivery, and enforcement of workfare” |
Grahame & Marston 2012 [40] | Australia | 2008, 2009 | Interviews | Purposive sampling from eligible participants of welfare to work records | 21 | Wellbeing of welfare to work lone parents: dependency and development of autonomy |
Haux et al. 2012 [37] | UK | 2009, 2010 | Face to face interviews (peer) | Single Parent Action Network participants, Citizens Advice and Job Centre Plus invite, social network sites | 50 | Experience of welfare to work assistance and implications for wellbeing |
USA | 1999 - 2000 | Face to face interviews (peer) | Snowball sampling | 34 | 2002: Effect of welfare to work on lone parents’ health and wellbeing | |
2005: Perceptions of lone parents of their health and wellbeing while on welfare to work | ||||||
Hildebrandt 2006 [29] | USA | 2000 | Face to face interview | Purposive sampling from participants in work-based welfare programme, snowballing | 31 | Barriers to maintaining welfare to work participation |
Hildebrandt & Ford 2009 [32] | USA | 2007 - 2009 | Face to face interviews | Community based purposive sampling | 41 | Barriers to success when lone parents are removed from welfare after the 5 year time limit |
Lane et al. 2011 [33] | UK | 2011 | Interviews | Welfare to work records | 60 | Experience of welfare to work |
McArthur et al. 2013 [41] | Australia | 2009 | Telephone interviews, focus groups | Social security social workers invite potential eligible participants | 48 | Lone parents’ encounters with welfare to work process, in particular the most in need feeling under greatest scrutiny |
McPhee &Bronstein 2003 [36] | USA | 1999 | Face to face interviews | All participants of (un-named) welfare to work programme | 39 | “Effect of welfare reforms on lone parents’ perceived ability to care for themselves and their family” |
Oliker 1995 [30] | USA | 1987 - 1992 | Face to face interviews, observation | Participants of job search, job training programmes | 30 | How welfare to work lone parents make decisions about work in relation to their domestic obligations |
Peacey 2009 [42] | UK | 2009 | Telephone interviews | Callers to helpline/participants of employability programme/internet site | 34 | Experience of lone parents as they move from non-conditional welfare benefits to welfare to work |
Pollack and Caragata 2010 [43] | Canada | 2005 - 2009 | Face to face interviews | Adverts in social services offices, snowballing, referrals from welfare workers | 42 | “how lone mothers construct their own subjectivity” in relation to workfare |
Selekman and Ybarra 2011 [35] | USA | ? 2006 | Face to face interviews | Random selection of participants from larger study who had increased income | 15 | The facilitators for welfare to work lone parents who gain paid employment |