Effect of Home-Based Peer Support on Maternal-Infant Interaction and Postpartum Depression

Postpartum Depression Clinical Trial

Official title:

An RCT to Evaluate the Effect of Home-Based Peer Support on Maternal-Infant Interaction, Infant Health Outcomes, and Postpartum Depression

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00298311
• Other study ID #: PPD MOD
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 1, 2006
• Last updated: August 3, 2017
• Start date: November 2005
• Est. completion date: July 2010

Study information

• Verified date: August 2017
• Source: Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The objective of this study is to examine the impact of a home-based peer support intervention for mothers affected by postpartum depression (PPD) and for their infants.

Description:

This controlled study will help establish the link between support for maternal caregiving, maternal-infant interaction, infant neuroendocrinology and infant cognitive and social development. The primary hypothesis predicts that home-based peer support will improve maternal-infant interactions. Secondary hypotheses predict that home-based peer support will: improve infants' cognitive development; improve infants' social development; decrease average daily salivary cortisol levels in infants; reduce maternal depressive symptomatology; and improve maternal perceptions of social support.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: July 2010
• Est. primary completion date: February 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Eligible mothers will be identified as experiencing symptoms of PPD and scores >12 on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.

• Mothers must speak English or French.

• Mothers will not be excluded for taking anti-depressant or anti-psychotic medication, using other interventions for PPD, or reporting a history of mental illness;

• The infant must be full-term, in the care of the mother and between 3 to 6 months of age at initial enrollment.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Infants who have been admitted to the NICU

• Infants will be excluded if medicated with corticosteroids

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression
• Depression, Postpartum
• Depressive Disorder
• Postpartum Depression

Intervention

Behavioral:
• mci guidance peer support
12 weeks of home visits by peer mentor recovered from PPD and Keys to Caregiving (NCAST, 1990) program

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (8)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy	Canadian Mental Health Association, Department of Health and Wellness, NB, Edmonton Mental Health Services, Pediatric Rehabilitation Services, Social Support Research Program, University Health Network, Toronto, Women's Health Research Unit

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	maternal-infant interaction		12 months
Secondary	cognitive development		12 months
Secondary	social development		12 months
Secondary	salivary cortisol		12 months
Secondary	depressive symptomatology		12 months
Secondary	social support		12 months