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The Impact of Creative Interventions on Symptoms of Postnatal Depression

NCT02526407 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 153

Last updated 2017-04-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Post-natal depression (PND) is anticipated to affect 12.9% of new mothers with at least 75,000 cases per year in the UK alone. However, despite this, there is currently a worrying lack of support for new mothers, with data suggesting that 64% of healthcare trusts in the UK do not have a strategy for treating postnatal depression, and flaws in the current pharmacological and psychological treatment models. Consequently, research into promising psychosocial interventions such as music is critical to developing new paradigms for treating postnatal depression.

This project is an ambitious programme of research that investigates the effects of music on postnatal depression through two phases: a questionnaire study and an intervention study. This record is for the intervention study. The questionnaire study has a separate record. We are accepting host hospital sites for both.

Conditions

  • Depression, Postpartum

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Singing

Sessions will be led by a professional practitioner assisted by students from the Royal College of Music. Participants will learn songs with their babies and help to create new musical material together.

BEHAVIORAL

Group play

Sessions will be led by a professional practitioner assisted by students from the Royal College of Music. Participants will take part in group play activities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust

    collaborator OTHER

  • Imperial College London

    collaborator OTHER

  • Royal College of Music

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Aaron Williamon, PhD · Royal College of Music / Imperial College London

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-19
Primary Completion
2016-07-31
Completion
2016-09-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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