View clinical trials related to Depression, Postpartum.
Filter by:The pilot trial aims to test the feasibility, acceptability and cultural appropriateness of online LTP+CaCBT for treating postnatal depression and to improve the mental health and wellbeing of mothers and their children in the UK.
COVID-19 has placed unprecedented strains on parents impacted by toxic stress (depression, addiction, intimate partner violence, and poverty) and reluctant to see mental health-service providers in home/clinic due to fears of infection. Due to the pandemic, Co-PI Letourneau ceased/delayed recruitment in VID-KIDS a CIHR-funded randomized controlled trials (RCT) of in-person (home or clinic) program designed to improve children's mental, emotional and behavioural (MEB) health and development via parent-child relationship intervention. Recognizing the heightened need for already vulnerable families to obtain safe parenting support to manage depressive symptoms/other stressors. Our primary knowledge user (D. McNeil, Scientific Director, Maternal Newborn Child and Youth Strategic Clinical Network, Alberta Health Services) advocated for online delivery of the VID-KIDS parent training program. In response, an interdisciplinary team from nursing and software engineering rapidly pivoted to an online delivery format. Critical barriers to using existing commercial technologies emerged, making it essential to develop and implement tailored, user-informed virtual care delivery platforms and tools safe, secure, user-friendly for families already stressed. This project aligns with the priority research area, Developing Innovative Adaptations of Services and/or Delivery, as innovative user interface design and integrated knowledge transfer approaches will be used to: (a) adapt VID-KIDS for virtual delivery; (b) develop virtual platforms (web-based applications) and tools (mobile apps) for flexible delivery of mental health supports for parents and training for professional facilitators; (c) integrate virtual mental health services into the primary care system promoting program uptake; and (d) design/test streamlined and intuitive virtual systems for nimble spread/scaleup. The project catalyzes and enriches the PIs' research program by crossing disciplines (nursing & engineering) in cutting edge research that is responsive to trends in both mental health intervention and web-interface design. This will be foundational for future tri-council RCT grants, expanding our research into user-engaged technology-enabled delivery of needed community interventions, especially relevant to promoting the urgent mental health needs of Canadian families in the COVID-19 context of physical distancing.
Women with the eating disorder bulimia nervosa (BN) have been found to have a higher risk of unplanned pregnancies than healthy women, and experience greater miscarriage, premature birth, birth complications, and postpartum depression. Other studies have found that women with eating disorders seem to find motivation to refrain from the eating disordered behavior for the sake of the fetus, but that it is highly different whether this gives sustained or only a temporary remission. Eating disorders are rarely detected in the primary health care service, nor during pregnancy or during follow-up in fertility clinics. Meeting a health care provider in the pregnancy care service who does not know about the eating disorder or who does not understand the disease well enough, can also make the management and experience of pregnancy and weight gain extra difficult. The aim of this study is to increase the knowledge on how women with a history of eating disorder experience their bodily changes, and how they experience the health service in pregnancy care and post-partum period.
The aim is to see fatigue and depression levels in postpartum females and to evaluate ho two well-known exercises, Mat Pilates and Aerobic training can help to reduce the fatigue levels in postpartum females
This study aims to explore whether quarantine measures, social distancing and hospital containment policies among women giving birth during the COVID-19 pandemic enhanced psycho-emotional distress in the immediate postpartum period. The investigators tested for depression using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) in the first 6 postpartum months, and then used the Fear of COVID-19 Scale, measuring also the adherence and practices of breastfeeding according to WHO.
This study investigates the effects of a single dose of oxytocin (OT) delivered via a nasal spray in women with and without traits of postnatal depression (PND).
Postpartum depression and poor quality of life during postpartum were an vital issue in recent years. Infant's health condition was thought to be a possible reasons related mother's postpartum quality of life, and functional gastrointestinal disorders such as infantile colic and regurgitation were common problem during infant period. Previous study revealed that probiotics may improve the infant's discomfort caused by functional gastrointestinal disorders. Thus, this study aimed to investigate whether probiotics use in neonate and infant improve their mother's life quality?
Depressed mothers (pregnant and post-delivery) make up a significant portion of Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) clients. Home visited mothers often experience family conflict that precipitates or worsens their depressive symptoms. This study uses an effectiveness-implementation hybrid type 1 design with a pilot randomized trial to test the feasibility, acceptability, tolerability, safety, and preliminary effectiveness of an innovative family therapy intervention that uses technology to bypass barriers to increase access to treatment for this vulnerable population.
The Supportive Parenting App is a theory-based perinatal educational intervention for couples administered through a mobile application. The intervention comprise of knowledge-based content, informational videos and audio, discussion forum, peer volunteer chat group, and a frequently asked questions (FAQ) expert advice section. The aims of the study are to: 1. develop theory-based supportive parenting App (SPA) intervention for both first-time and experienced parents across perinatal period 2. examine its effectiveness on parental outcomes: including maternal depression at 12 months postpartum (primary outcome), paternal depression, parental anxiety, parenting self-efficacy, help - seeking behavior (social support), parental bonding and parenting satisfaction (secondary outcomes); and new-born outcomes: physical, social and emotional developments (secondary outcomes) 3. evaluate SPA's cost-effectiveness as compared to standard perinatal care across major restructured hospitals, and 4. examine the perceptions of parents in receiving this intervention. When compared with those in the control group receiving standard care: 1. parents receiving SPA intervention will have better- emotional well-being (reduced depression and anxiety);parenting self-efficacy; social support; bonding and satisfaction. 2. new-borns of parents receiving SPA will have better physical, social and emotional development 3. It will be more cost-effective to provide SPA than the standard care
The goal of the study is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the optimized MeSSSSage intervention which was developed and revised based on the results of our initial pilot testing. The investigators will conduct a controlled 4-arm factorial design randomized study to test the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of several intervention modalities over a 6-month period.