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Virtual Psychiatric Care for Perinatal Depression

NCT03291600 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 76

Last updated 2019-02-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Perinatal depression occurs in 15% of pregnant women and new mothers, yet as few as 1 in 5 receive adequate treatment. It has a negative impact on the woman herself, as well as a potential for serious consequences for her child. Virtual psychiatric care is a potential model that may provide accessible mental health care during this time, as barriers to in-person care often include unpredictable infant schedules, competing childcare demands, or travel/cost challenges. The Virtual-PND intervention consists of 12-weeks of the option of supplementing in-person psychiatric care with secure, in-home real-time video-visits through the Ontario Telemedicine Network. This pilot RCT will demonstrate the feasibility of proceeding to a future large-scale RCT evaluation of virtual psychiatric care for this population.

Conditions

  • Perinatal Depression

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Virtual Psychiatric Care

Virtual psychiatric care for perinatal depression will be offered to participants, in addition to care as usual, for a 12-week period by their treating perinatal psychiatrist. Virtual care will be delivered by video-based visits through the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN). The treating psychiatrist may request that an intervention group participant present for in-person care at any visit, and this may include need for behavioural activation, or another health-related indication at the discretion of the treating psychiatrist.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sinai Health System

    collaborator OTHER

  • Women's College Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lori Wasserman, MD, FRCPC · Women's College Hospital

  • Ariel Dalfen, MD, FRCPC · Sinai Health System

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-10-24
Primary Completion
2018-12-31
Completion
2018-12-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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