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Building Emotional Awareness and Mental Health

NCT04772677 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2021-06-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Since its emergence in December 2019, COVID-19 has reshaped the world. Mental health problems are predicted to rise dramatically as a secondary effect of the disease and measures put in place to contain it. Our emerging evidence shows parents of young children have not been spared from these effects and are experiencing 4-fold increases depression and anxiety. Young children are highly vulnerable to parent mental illness due to their reliance on caregivers to meet basic needs. Interventions are needed that consider the unique mental health and parenting challenges families are encountering during the pandemic. Our team of mental health and program development experts will address these needs through an online psychoeducation and social-connection platform, BEAM: Building Emotional Awareness and Mental Health. BEAM brings together best practices in online telehealth programs in a highly personalized and interactive format to address multiple family needs. With clinical research investigators across provinces, the BEAM pilot project will provide services to 60 mothers (30 per group) of 6-36 month old children in Manitoba and Alberta.

Conditions

  • Maternal Depression

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

BEAM Mental Health and Parenting Program

The BEAM program is a novel mobile app-based therapeutic intervention that incorporates key parenting concepts and Unified Protocol (UP) therapy modules with clinician-facilitated peer social support and connection. The primary aim of the program is to improve symptoms of depression and promote a positive parent-child relationship. There are three main components of the program: 1) the UP content, which will target maternal mental health symptomology, 2) the parenting skills training content, which is designed to correspond to the UP modules and promote maternal responsivity to children's emotions, and 3) a closed online community forum to encourage social support and connection between participants of the program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Calgary

    collaborator OTHER

  • Tactica Interactive

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Centre for Healthcare Innovation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Research Manitoba

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Manitoba

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-05-05
Primary Completion
2021-07-01
Completion
2021-09-01

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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