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Relationship-Based Intervention for Post-Partum Depression

NCT04193462 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2024-05-29

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Summary

A short term dyadic psychotherapy intervention for mothers with Post-Partum depression and their babies in the first year of life was developed. The investigators believe that following dyadic intervention mothers will show improvement in depressive symptoms, the quality of the mother-child relationship will improve, and maternal and infant's oxytocin levels will rise.

Conditions

  • Post Partum Depression

Interventions

OTHER

Post-partum depression- Dyadic psychotherapy-

Mothers and infants will be treated with dyadic psychotherapy focused on interactions, emphasizing eye contact, body language, empathy, and social reciprocity. Dyadic psychotherapy will be administered one time a week during the 8-week trial period, at the subject's home. Each session, approximately 90 minutes long, will include videotaping mother-infant interaction, watching the last session's interaction as a part of video-feedback technique, and discussing main issues in the mother-infant relationship. In addition, each session will begin and end with a- 5-minute episode of affectionate touch and gaze synchrony between the mother and her infant. During the whole therapy-trial, the therapist will also use cognitive-behavioral approach to address the mother's perception of her infant and of herself as a mother.

OTHER

Post-partum depression- Psycho-educational therapy

Mothers will receive a therapy in their homes for 8 weeks, 1.5 hours for each session by a therapist arriving at their home. Each session will address a different developmental aspects of the baby (feeding, movement, social-emotional development etc.). Therapist will ask the mother about her baby, will give information about developmental needs and expectations and will help mother to enrich child's development and deal will potential problems

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Moran Influs, Phd · Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-05-08
Primary Completion
2024-10-31
Completion
2024-12-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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