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Early intervention to protect the mother-infant relationship following postnatal depression: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

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Title
Early intervention to protect the mother-infant relationship following postnatal depression: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
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Trials, October 2014
DOI 10.1186/1745-6215-15-385
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Jeannette Milgrom, Charlene Holt

Abstract

At least 13% of mothers experience depression in the first postnatal year, with accompanying feelings of despair and a range of debilitating symptoms. Serious sequelae include disturbances in the mother-infant relationship and poor long-term cognitive and behavioural outcomes for the child. Surprisingly, treatment of maternal symptoms of postnatal depression does not improve the mother-infant relationship for a majority of women. Targeted interventions to improve the mother-infant relationship following postnatal depression are scarce and, of those that exist, the majority are not evaluated in randomised controlled trials. This study aims to evaluate a brief targeted mother-infant intervention, to follow cognitive behavioural therapy treatment of postnatal depression, which has the potential to improve developmental outcomes of children of depressed mothers.

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Country Count As %
Italy 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 470 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 82 17%
Researcher 63 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 57 12%
Student > Bachelor 56 12%
Student > Postgraduate 25 5%
Other 79 17%
Unknown 113 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 166 35%
Medicine and Dentistry 63 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 47 10%
Social Sciences 31 7%
Neuroscience 10 2%
Other 30 6%
Unknown 128 27%