View clinical trials related to Postpartum Depression.
Filter by:Postpartum depression (PPD) affects up to one in five of women and has profound effects on mothers and their infants. Unfortunately, fewer than 15% of women with PPD receive evidence-based care. This is at least partly due to significant difficulties faced by women in accessing psychotherapies, their preferred treatment for PPD. Around the world, there is a significant lack of healthcare professionals trained to deliver CBT. This study will utilize a randomized controlled trial design (with wait-list controls) and recruit 174 participants to determine if women with a past history of PPD (i.e., lay peers) can be trained to deliver effective group CBT online to women currently struggling with PPD. If peers can be trained to provide effective CBT, more women would receive treatment and the burden of PPD on women, families, and the healthcare system would be significantly reduced.
This study was to explore the preventive effect of esketamine on postpartum depression in cesarean section, and to evaluate the safety of the drug
In the planned study, it was aimed to examine the effect of tele-education offered in the postpartum period in the covid 19 pandemic on the levels of depression, attachment and anxiety of women.
The overarching purpose of this study is to determine if a modified 8-week mindfulness-based intervention (with a focus on self-compassion; MBSC) will reduce stress and increase self-compassion in mothers of preterm infants and beneficially modify the human milk produced, and subsequently improve infant health.
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.
Perinatal depression affects 10-15% of women postpartum and has a recurrence rate of 40%. Women who develop perinatal depression might be particularly susceptible to the rapid and large changes in sex steroid hormones, particularly estradiol, across pregnancy to postpartum. This trial aims 1) to evaluate the preventive effect of transdermal estradiol treatment in the immediate postpartum on depressive episodes in a subgroup of women at high-risk for perinatal depression, and 2) to determine if a set of biomarker gene transcripts can identify this subgroup and thus form the basis for future personalised prevention or treatment. The MAMA Trial is a double-blind, 1:1 randomised, placebo-controlled trial. The trial involves maternity wards at three university hospitals in the Capital Region of Denmark. Women who are singleton pregnant in the third trimester with a prior history of perinatal depression are eligible to participate. Participants will be randomised to either estradiol patches (200 μg per day) or placebo patches for three weeks starting immediately postpartum. The primary statistical analysis will be performed based on the intention-to-treat principle. A sample size of 220 will provide the trial with 80% power (alpha 0.05, beta 0.2) to detect a reduction in postpartum depression of 50% and to tolerate a drop-out of around 20%.
The project aims to test the clinical effectiveness of the Mom´s Supporting Moms intervention, a newly developed approach to the prevention of postpartum depression (PPD) and to determine its cost-effectiveness. The approach consists of online screening for risk of PPD in obstetric settings, and subsequent remote peer support intervention for women at risk of PPD development. As a preparation for proposed study, investigators have developed the Mom´s Supporting Moms intervention which is based in mother-to-mother delivered psychoeducation, basic procedures of cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness, shared personal experience with postpartum depression and, if necessary, referring to a professional consultation. Proposed study will allow investigators to bring missing Czech methodological procedures for the early screening of PPD development risk, and for subsequent non-pharmacological intervention. Further, investigators will be able to present economic data on proposed intervention to relevant stakeholders in mental health policy. To achieve these aims, investigators will 1) set up a screening program in five Czech maternity hospitals 2) conduct a randomized controlled trial (n= 60 per each arm), and 3) conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of the Mom´s Supporting Moms intervention. Investigators will test the following primary hypotheses: H1: Mom´s Supporting Moms intervention will decrease depressive symptoms in women at risk of PPD development. Secondary hypotheses: SH1: Mom´s Supporting Moms intervention will reduce anxiety symptoms in women at risk of PPD development. SH2: Mom´s Supporting Moms intervention will increase women's health-related quality of life. SH3: Mom´s Supporting Moms intervention is cost-effective in comparison to treatment as usual.
This study is a six-week exploratory developmental phase (phase 1) of a larger project to develop an mHealth intervention targeting health education and social support for Indian women in the postnatal period. Phase 1 of the trial exposes study participants to various intervention modalities and seeks to understand their experiences and perspectives on these using mixed-methods. Results from this trial will inform modifications to the intervention to be tested in Phase 2.
The aim of this study is to explore the feasibility of delivering clinical mindfulness groups for families affected with postpartum depression and anxiety (PPDA). Families with PPDA are a vulnerable population who already face challenges during the postpartum period, but now the Covid-19 era has brought extra challenges - lower availability of family members or support systems to help in person, older children at home as childcare facilities are closed, etc. Clinical mindfulness groups are now being run online to support this population, with the current barriers of having to stay at home. Through this study, we want to capture the challenges that both clinicians and participants might face using virtual platforms (e.g. technical difficulties), to see whether online delivery of clinical mindfulness groups is feasible.