Contributing to health visiting research: Participating in the ADBB study

Health visitors play an important role in contributing to the national strategic plan for nursing research. While the need for health visitors to lead research may be more widely recognised, creating an enabling environment for research to take place and supporting health visitors to participate in research is less often reported. This article shares the experiences of health visitors and managers from the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust who participated in the Alarm Distress Baby Scale study carried out by the Institute of Health Visiting in partnership with the University of Oxford, contributing to the evidence base in this area.