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Randomized Controlled Trial of the Alma Peer Mentoring Program for Pregnant Women Experiencing Depression

NCT02883686 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 27

Last updated 2020-05-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Women have double the odds of getting depressed as men and commonly experience depression during the childbearing and early parenting years. Many new and expectant mothers who experience depression never receive help. Alma is a new program, collaboratively developed by a team of researchers, clinicians, and mothers who have personal experience with depression, to support women experiencing depression during pregnancy and the postpartum period. In the Alma program, mothers who themselves have experienced and recovered from depression during the perinatal period, are trained to provide peer mentoring to depressed new and expectant mothers. Peer mentors are trained by professionals who are experts in using skills to recover from depression. These skills are informed by an evidence-based framework called Behavioral Activation (BA). Peer mentors do not provide psychotherapy and are not licensed mental health providers.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Alma

Alma peer-mentoring

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kaiser Permanente

    collaborator OTHER

  • Emory University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Colorado, Boulder

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sona Dimidjian, PhD · University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Arne Beck, PhD · Kaiser Permanente

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-06
Primary Completion
2020-04-28
Completion
2020-04-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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