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Early Psychosocial Stimulation Program for Children of Depressed Mothers

NCT00835016 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 260

Last updated 2020-10-14

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Summary

Aim:

To assess the feasibility of provision of an early psychosocial stimulation programme for the children of depressed mothers and to determine its effect on, mothers depression , mothers' knowledge and practices of childrearing and on children's development.

Hypothesis:

Primary hypothesis:

Mothers attending the psychosocial stimulation program will have significant improvement in the level of depression as compared to the mothers who are on the waiting list.

Secondary hypothesis:

Children of mothers having the intervention will have significantly better growth than the children of mothers who do not have the intervention.

Design:

Randomised controlled trial.

Setting:

An urban slum in a township in Karachi.

Participants:

A total of 130 randomly selected depressed mothers in the intervention group and a total of 130 mothers in the waiting list control group.

Interventions:

Weekly LTP groups for the first eight sessions and two fortnightly sessions. Parenting issues will be discussed with the mothers and play activities will be demonstrated with the children using LTP and homemade materials.

Main outcome measures:

Mothers scores on EPDS \& HAM D , Parenting stress as measured by PSI-SF and mothers' knowledge and practices of child rearing measured by questionnaires. Children's height, weight, head and arm circumference.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Early psychosocial stimulation (LTP)

Learning through Play (LTP) groups will be conducted weekly for the first eight sessions and two fortnightly sessions. Parenting issues will be discussed with the mothers and play activities will be demonstrated with the children using LTP and home made materials.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre

    collaborator OTHER

  • Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dr. Nusrat Husain · Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-02-28
Primary Completion
2010-07-31
Completion
2011-01-31

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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