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Be a Mom: Effectiveness of a Web-based Preventive Intervention for Postpartum Depression

NCT03024645 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1000

Last updated 2021-04-27

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Summary

The main goal of the research is to apply and evaluate the web-based preventive intervention (the Be a Mom program), in terms of its efficacy, acceptability and feasibility (user's adherence, dropout), and user's satisfaction. Prior to the randomized controlled trial (RCT), the investigators will conduct a pilot trial to evaluate the preliminary version of the Be a Mom program in high-risk women (random assignment to the intervention or to the control condition).

The RCT will be a two-arm prevention trial. Women who have had a child during the prior month will be enrolled in the study. A minimum number of 1000 women will be enrolled in the study. After agreeing to participate in the study, the women will be screened for the presence of risk factors for PPD and early-onset PPD symptoms (using self-report questionnaires) by a researcher (licensed psychologist). In case of a negative screen, women's participation in the study will end. In case of a positive screen (high-risk women), women will be randomly assigned to one of the conditions: the intervention (Be a Mom program) or the control condition. The sample will be recruited online and at the maternities of Coimbra University Hospitals-CHUC, EPE.

Participation in the study will last 11 months. The Be a Mom program will last 5 weeks. Participants in both conditions will be invited by the researchers via email to complete baseline, post-intervention and follow-up (4-months and 12-months after childbirth) assessments. Assessments will include self-report questionnaires to assess several indicators (e.g., depressive and anxiety symptoms, dyadic adjustment, mother-child bonding, and maternal confidence), mechanisms that may be involved in the treatment response (e.g., npsychological flexibility, emotional regulation) and user's acceptability and satisfaction.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Be A Mom

The Be a Mom program is a web-based self-guided cognitive-behavioral intervention to prevent postpartum depression, targeting postpartum women. It consists of 5 weekly modules, each module targeting a specific thematic content, and providing women with both information and specific therapeutic strategies (with a strong focus on cognitive-behavioral techniques) to address each thematic content. Modules are sequential.

OTHER

Treatment as usually (TAU)

performed in primary care settings

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Coimbra

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ana Fonseca, PhD · Post-doctoral fellow at CINEICC

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-08-01
Primary Completion
2021-09-01
Completion
2021-12-31

Countries

  • Portugal

Study Locations

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