Anxiety Clinical Trial
Official title:
Mamas in Harmony: a Feasibility Study With Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial and Process Evaluation of a Music and Social Support Group Intervention for Postnatal Mothers and Their Infants
This research study aims to assess the feasibility of conducting a full scale trial of Mamas in Harmony, a group music and social support class delivered by a professional musician for mothers and their babies. Classes for Mamas in Harmony run for 1 hour each week for 8 weeks at a community venue with 10-12 mothers and babies in each class. The aim of this study is to conduct a pilot randomised controlled trial and process evaluation to assess recruitment rate, retention rate, adherence rate to the study protocol, attendance rate for the intervention, completion rate of outcome measurement tools, acceptability of the intervention, and barriers/facilitators for study participation and intervention delivery. This feasibility study aims to recruit 60 mothers and babies. Forty will be randomly allocated to the intervention group of Mamas in Harmony and receive standard postnatal care and twenty will receive standard postnatal care only, as the control group. All mothers will be asked to complete study questionnaires at three time points over a 6 month period to assess their mental health and wellbeing and bonding with their baby. Mothers will also be asked if they wish to share their opinions and experiences about the research study and Mamas in Harmony classes (if they were allocated to that group) in an interview, to provide their thoughts, whether anything made it easy/difficult for them to participate and whether they have any suggestions on how to improve the study procedure. The musician will also be asked for their experiences on the barriers and facilitators of intervention delivery.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 60 |
Est. completion date | September 30, 2026 |
Est. primary completion date | September 30, 2024 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | Female |
Age group | 16 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Mothers who have a baby aged =14 days to =4 months at time of consent. - Able and willing to provide consent identified by having a satisfactory understanding of English and comprehension of the participant information sheet and consent form. Exclusion Criteria: - Mothers who have given birth in the last 14 days. - Infants >4 months at time of consent. - Identified as not having satisfactory understanding of English and comprehension of the participant information sheet and consent form. - Mothers who have received a diagnosis of, or being treated for, severe mental illness including Bipolar disorder, Psychoses or Schizophrenia within the past 6 months (discovered through self-report at time of eligibility screening). |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United Kingdom | Queen's University | Belfast | County Antrim |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Queen's University, Belfast |
United Kingdom,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Rates of recruitment and retention | Rates of participant flow through each stage of the pilot RCT, from participant invite for eligibility assessment through to outcome assessment at 6-month follow-up, using screening logs and study registers. Data supplemented with reasons for non-participation, if disclosed. | 6 months | |
Secondary | Rate of adherence to the study protocol | Rate of adherence of participants across each stage of the pilot RCT, using study registers. Data supplemented with reasons for non-participation, if disclosed. | 6 months | |
Secondary | Rate of attendance to Mamas in Harmony intervention sessions | Rate of attendance of participants allocated to the intervention group using study registers. Data supplemented with reasons for non-attendance, if disclosed. | 8 weeks | |
Secondary | Completion rate of the Generalised Anxiety Disorder-7 scale (GAD-7) | Developed to assist health professionals in detecting generalised anxiety. GAD-7 consists of 7 questions with a choice of 4 responses based on how the individual has felt over the past 2 weeks. Measured on a scale of 0-21. Scores of 5, 10 and 15 are taken as the cut off points for mild, moderate and severe anxiety respectively. When used as a screening tool, further evaluation is recommended when the score is 10 or greater. This scale will be administered to assess whether it is an appropriate outcome measure for a full scale trial, as determined by completion rate and proportion of missing data. | 3 months and 6 months post randomisation | |
Secondary | Completion rate of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) | Developed to assist health professionals in detecting postnatal depression. Scale consists of 10 questions with a choice of 4 responses based on how the individual has felt over the past 7 days. Measured on a scale of 0-30. A score of more than 10 suggests depression may be present and further evaluation is recommended. This scale will be administered to assess whether it is an appropriate outcome measure for a full scale trial, as determined by completion rate and proportion of missing data. | 3 months and 6 months post randomisation | |
Secondary | Completion rate of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) | Developed to assist in assessing stress level in young people and adults aged 12 and above. It evaluates the degree to which an individual has perceived life as unpredictable, uncontrollable and overloading over the previous month. Consisting of 10 questions. The PSS score is obtained by summing across all items. Higher scores indicate higher levels of perceived stress, There are no published score cut-offs as this is not a diagnostic instrument. This scale will be administered to assess whether it is an appropriate outcome measure for a full scale trial, as determined by completion rate and proportion of missing data. | 3 months and 6 months post randomisation | |
Secondary | Completion rate of the Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale (KPCS) | Developed to assist in the support and development of parenting skills for parents of children 0-12 months of age. Containing 15 items with scores of 0-45. Parents scoring 39 or less may be experiencing low levels of parenting confidence. This scale will be administered to assess whether it is an appropriate outcome measure for a full scale trial, as determined by completion rate and proportion of missing data. | 3 months and 6 months post randomisation | |
Secondary | Completion rate of the Social Support Survey (SSS) | Consisting of 19 questions across 4 separate social support subscales and an overall functional social support index. A higher score for an individual scale or for the overall support index indicates more support. This tool will be administered to assess whether it is an appropriate outcome measure for a full scale trial, as determined by completion rate and proportion of missing data. | 3 months and 6 months post randomisation | |
Secondary | Completion rate of the Maternal Postnatal Attachment Scale (MPAS) | Developed to assess the mothers emotional response to her infant along a number of dimensions relating to parent-infant attachment. 19 items and number of response categories varies between two and five. Item totals are summed to obtain the scale score. Lower scores indicate lower attachment and vice versa. This scale will be administered to assess whether it is an appropriate outcome measure for a full scale trial, as determined by completion rate and proportion of missing data. | 3 months and 6 months post randomisation | |
Secondary | Completion rate of the EuroQol EQ-5D-5L | Respondents rate their health-related quality of life today on 5 dimensions (mobility, self care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression) in order to assess treatment effects and investigate gains (or losses) in reported health status. This tool will be administered to assess whether it is an appropriate outcome measure for a full scale trial, as determined by completion rate and proportion of missing data. | 3 months and 6 months post randomisation | |
Secondary | Completion rate of service and resource use log | A service and resource use instrument has been developed for use in this study to capture and cost public sector service and resource use for postnatal mothers. This will be administered to assess whether it is an appropriate outcome measure for a full scale trial, as determined by completion rate and proportion of missing data. | 3 and 6 months | |
Secondary | Satisfaction of Mamas in Harmony intervention | To explore expectations of and satisfaction with the intervention and ideas for improvement using evaluation forms administered to mothers in week 8 at the final session of the intervention, including a scale of 0-10, a higher score indicating a better rating, scale of strongly disagree to strongly agree, scale of very unlikely to very likely, multiple choice questions and free text answer boxes. | 8 weeks | |
Secondary | Acceptability of Mamas in Harmony intervention | Gain insight on the acceptability of the intervention in terms of being liked or disliked, appropriate, benefits gained, to identify any barriers to attendance and/or engagement that exist and recommendations for improvement using semi-structured interviews with a subset of participants | 6 months | |
Secondary | Perspectives on barriers and facilitators to intervention delivery | Understand perspectives on barriers and facilitators to intervention delivery to determine improvements needed for future research using a semi-structured interview with the intervention facilitator/s. | 6 months | |
Secondary | Perspectives on barriers and facilitators to study participation | Understand perspectives on barriers and facilitators to study participation using semi-structured interviews with a subgroup of study participants | 6 months | |
Secondary | Perspectives on intervention fidelity | Understand perspectives on implementation in terms of fidelity (intervention delivered as intended) using semi-structured interviews with intervention facilitators | 6 months |
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