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New at Parenting Study

NCT07076381 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 58

Last updated 2025-07-22

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Summary

This study examines whether a brief counseling intervention provided to parents virtually in the first six months after having their baby is able to reduce and prevent the development of depression symptoms, anxiety, and stress. It also explores whether parents' confidence increases over time and whether they feel more support by the end of the intervention. The study will compare a group of parents who receive the intervention from trained graduate students in clinical psychology with a group of parents who do not receive the intervention.

Select parents will also be interviewed to understand their experiences of new parenting and to help explain the research findings of the study.

Conditions

  • Control Group
  • Counseling

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Brief and solutions-therapy intervention

Parents will receive three phone counseling sessions over "Zoom" of 45-60 minutes each from a counselor when their baby is 4-6 weeks old; 10-12 weeks old, and 16-20 weeks old. The date and time of the sessions will be coordinated by phone or e-mail between the parent and their counselor in the week preceding the call. Following their session, parents in this group will receive a brief satisfaction survey over e-mail (Appendix E) that they will be asked to complete within 72 hours.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of San Francisco

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dhara Meghani, PhD · University of San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-01-04
Primary Completion
2018-12-30
Completion
2020-03-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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