Reducing Maternal Depression and Promoting Infant Social-Emotional Health & Development
| Status: | Recruiting |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Depression, Depression |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Psychiatry / Psychology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 18 - Any |
| Updated: | 12/23/2018 |
| Start Date: | February 15, 2018 |
| End Date: | August 31, 2021 |
| Contact: | Kathleen Baggett, PhD |
| Email: | kbaggett@gsu.edu |
| Phone: | 404-413-1571 |
A mobile remote coaching program study to improve maternal mood and increase parenting
practices that lead to better infant social-emotional and communication outcomes
practices that lead to better infant social-emotional and communication outcomes
To address the life course needs of depressed mothers and their infants, brief, accessible,
and integrated interventions that target both maternal depression and specific nurturing
parent behaviors demonstrated to improve infant social-emotional communication outcomes are
needed. In prior programmatic research, two separate web-based, remote coaching interventions
for: (a) parent nurturing behaviors that improve infant outcomes (Baby-Net R34; R01) [13],
and (b) maternal depression (Mom-Net R34; R01) [14] were developed. Compared to controls, the
Baby-Net program demonstrated medium to large effects on observed nurturing parent behavior
and on infant social-emotional competencies in the context of play [13] and in the context of
book activities [15]. Mom-Net demonstrated low attrition and high levels of feasibility,
program use, and satisfaction [14]. Compared to controls, Mom-Net participants demonstrated
significant reductions in depression and improved preschool parenting behavior [14]. A
substantial advantage of the mobile, remote coaching approach is that it overcomes multiple
logistical barriers that often prevent low-income mothers from participating in
community/home visiting treatment programs [2]. Thus, this prior research on web-based
maternal depression and specific nurturing parenting behavior in infancy, provides a strong
empirical basis for the Mom & Baby Net program. Investigators will rigorously test the merged
Mom & Baby Net intervention effects with 180 low-income mothers with depression and their
infants via a 2-arm, intent-to-treat, randomized controlled trial.
and integrated interventions that target both maternal depression and specific nurturing
parent behaviors demonstrated to improve infant social-emotional communication outcomes are
needed. In prior programmatic research, two separate web-based, remote coaching interventions
for: (a) parent nurturing behaviors that improve infant outcomes (Baby-Net R34; R01) [13],
and (b) maternal depression (Mom-Net R34; R01) [14] were developed. Compared to controls, the
Baby-Net program demonstrated medium to large effects on observed nurturing parent behavior
and on infant social-emotional competencies in the context of play [13] and in the context of
book activities [15]. Mom-Net demonstrated low attrition and high levels of feasibility,
program use, and satisfaction [14]. Compared to controls, Mom-Net participants demonstrated
significant reductions in depression and improved preschool parenting behavior [14]. A
substantial advantage of the mobile, remote coaching approach is that it overcomes multiple
logistical barriers that often prevent low-income mothers from participating in
community/home visiting treatment programs [2]. Thus, this prior research on web-based
maternal depression and specific nurturing parenting behavior in infancy, provides a strong
empirical basis for the Mom & Baby Net program. Investigators will rigorously test the merged
Mom & Baby Net intervention effects with 180 low-income mothers with depression and their
infants via a 2-arm, intent-to-treat, randomized controlled trial.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Mom is 18 years of age
- Mom speaks English
- Mom lives in metro-Atlanta area
- Mom has baby younger than 12 months of age
Exclusion Criteria:
- stressors that may interfere with mother or infant study participation such as:
maternal homelessness, mental or physical health condition (diagnosed with
schizophrenia or treatment/medication for hallucinations/delusions), current inpatient
treatment for mental health or substance abuse. Infant exclusion criteria include
factors that could render research participation stressful, such as intensive
treatment for a genetic or health condition or not in permanent legal guardian custody
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