2024
Implementing and evaluating group interpersonal therapy for postnatal depression in Lebanon and Kenya—individually randomised superiority trial
Fonagy P, Chammay R, Ngunu C, Kumar M, Verdeli L, Allison E, Anani G, Fearon P, Fouad F, Hoare Z, Koyio L, Moore H, Nyandigisi A, Pilling S, Sender H, Skordis J, Evans R, Jaoude G, Madeghe B, Maradian S, O’Donnell C, Simes E, Truscott A, Wambua G, Yator O. Implementing and evaluating group interpersonal therapy for postnatal depression in Lebanon and Kenya—individually randomised superiority trial. Trials 2024, 25: 217. PMID: 38532432, PMCID: PMC10964704, DOI: 10.1186/s13063-024-08039-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPostnatal depressionInterpersonal psychotherapyChild developmental outcomesMulti-site randomised controlled trialWomen's mental health needsStandard careEfficacy of interpersonal psychotherapyMaternal postnatal depressionMental health needsMental health concernsMiddle-income countriesRandomised controlled trialsDevelopmental outcomesHigh-income countriesAntenatal servicesChildbearing womenMother-child bondingRandomised superiority trialChildren's developmental progressHealth needsOffspring of womenMaternal depressionCommunity settingsLMIC contextsInterpersonal therapy
2016
Adapting and testing a brief intervention to reduce maternal anxiety during pregnancy (ACORN): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Wilkinson E, O’Mahen H, Fearon P, Halligan S, King D, Greenfield G, Dunkley-Bent J, Ericksen J, Milgrom J, Ramchandani P. Adapting and testing a brief intervention to reduce maternal anxiety during pregnancy (ACORN): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials 2016, 17: 156. PMID: 27006007, PMCID: PMC4804571, DOI: 10.1186/s13063-016-1274-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnxietyBody Temperature RegulationClinical ProtocolsCognitive Behavioral TherapyEnglandFeasibility StudiesFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornMidwiferyMother-Child RelationsPilot ProjectsPregnancyPregnancy ComplicationsPrenatal CarePsychiatric Status Rating ScalesPsychotherapy, BriefPsychotherapy, GroupQuality of LifeResearch DesignSleepTime FactorsTreatment OutcomeConceptsAntenatal anxietyBrief interventionMethods/designThis studyNumber of participantsRoutine antenatal carePost-intervention outcome measuresMeeting eligibility criteriaMother-child bondingParticipants meeting eligibility criteriaSymptoms of anxietyBackgroundNational guidelinesAntenatal careAntenatal servicesControlled TrialsIntervention armPerinatal populationFeasibility trialOutcome measuresMaternal anxietyNumber of sessionsCognitive-behavioral principlesEligibility criteriaDesignThis studyInfant sleepExpectant mothers