Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00298311
Effect of Home-Based Peer Support on Maternal-Infant Interaction and Postpartum Depression
An RCT to Evaluate the Effect of Home-Based Peer Support on Maternal-Infant Interaction, Infant Health Outcomes, and Postpartum Depression
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 60 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy · Academic / Other
- Sex
- Female
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The objective of this study is to examine the impact of a home-based peer support intervention for mothers affected by postpartum depression (PPD) and for their infants.
Detailed description
This controlled study will help establish the link between support for maternal caregiving, maternal-infant interaction, infant neuroendocrinology and infant cognitive and social development. The primary hypothesis predicts that home-based peer support will improve maternal-infant interactions. Secondary hypotheses predict that home-based peer support will: improve infants' cognitive development; improve infants' social development; decrease average daily salivary cortisol levels in infants; reduce maternal depressive symptomatology; and improve maternal perceptions of social support.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | mci guidance peer support | 12 weeks of home visits by peer mentor recovered from PPD and Keys to Caregiving (NCAST, 1990) program |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2005-11-01
- Primary completion
- 2009-02-01
- Completion
- 2010-07-01
- First posted
- 2006-03-02
- Last updated
- 2017-08-07
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00298311. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.