NCT05039853

Improving Mental Health Following Early PREgnancy Loss Using a Brief Cognitive Task

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 168 (actual)
• Sponsor: Imperial College London · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a randomised controlled trial designed to investigate the impact of a brief-cognitive task based intervention on intrusive memories, mental health symptoms and daily functioning, in women following an early pregnancy loss.

Detailed description

Women who have experienced an early pregnancy loss (miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy) will be randomly allocated to either a brief cognitive intervention or a placebo activity. Participants will be followed up at week 1, 1 month and 3 months following the intervention. It is hypothesised that those allocated to receive the brief cognitive task-based intervention will develop fever intrusive memories, less severe mental health symptoms and better day to day functioning when compared to women allocated to the placebo activity.

Conditions

• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
• Miscarriage
• Ectopic Pregnancy
• Pregnancy Loss
• Trauma, Psychological

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Brief cognitive task-based intervention	Memory reminder procedure, playing the computer game, Tetris , on a smart-device using mental rotation +/- Boosters
BEHAVIORAL	Placebo activity	Listening to a pod-cast on a smart-device for approximately 15 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-09
• Primary completion: 2024-03-21
• Completion: 2024-06-01
• First posted: 2021-09-10
• Last updated: 2024-11-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom