NCT03563339

Internet-delivered Postpartum Anxiety Prevention

Development and Pilot Test of Internet-delivered Postpartum Anxiety Prevention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 19 (actual)
• Sponsor: West Virginia University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Postpartum anxiety disorders are the most prevalent postpartum psychiatric conditions. Up to 16% of mothers experience postpartum anxiety or related disorders, such as OCD. With respect to the investigator's own community, this means that up to 3,313 women in West Virginia may struggle with postpartum anxiety or OCD. Left untreated, perinatal anxiety and OCD are associated with numerous adverse outcomes, such as maternal depression, preterm birth, impaired fetal development, low birthweight, difficulty breastfeeding, anxiety in children, and interference with parent-infant bonding. Critically, anxiety is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and substance use disorders, both significant West Virginia health disparities. Thus, there is a critical need to develop effective and scalable prevention programs to address postpartum anxiety and OCD. The purpose of this proposed community-engaged study is to develop and test the feasibility, usability, and acceptability of an Internet-delivered postpartum anxiety and OCD prevention program, called "Preventing Postpartum Onset Distress", or P-POD.

Conditions

• Postpartum Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	P-POD	. P-POD will include seven 30-minute online, educational, interactive modules that teach at-risk pregnant women skills derived from the gold standard, empirically supported cognitive-behavioral treatment for anxiety disorders and OCD. Additionally, P-POD will include three modules for fathers, to help them support their partners during the postpartum period. We will modify P-POD from an already existing in-person prevention program for postpartum OCD (developed by Co-Investigator Kiara Timpano). The m-health foundation of P-POD will be an already existing Internet-delivered treatment infrastructure (OurRelationship.com, developed by Co-Investigator Brian Doss).

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-04-08
• Primary completion: 2021-12-13
• Completion: 2021-12-13
• First posted: 2018-06-20
• Last updated: 2023-04-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States