The project aims to test the feasibility, acceptability, cultural appropriateness and effectiveness of LTP+CaCBT for treating postnatal depression and to enhance the mental health and wellbeing of mothers and their children in the low-income areas of Jos Nigeria. This project also aims to provide primary healthcare workers with culturally sensitive requisite skills and support to embed the proposed intervention into routine care practice and increase access to evidence-based intervention.
Participants who scored 10 or above on Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and tested positive for postnatal depression on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) would be recruited randomly assigned into two groups in each of the four primary health care (PHC) facilities designated for the present study. Groups one will receive the LTP+CaCBT treatment - the intervention will consist of a total of 12 (social distancing) group training sessions (60-90 minutes). Groups two will receive routine treatment as usual (TAU) currently available in the PHC facilities (e.g. antidepressants) in the selected communities. Each group will comprise of approximately 10 mother-child pairs.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
90
LTP is a low-literacy, sustainable programme that will provide depressed mothers with valuable skills on parenting, improve mother-child relation and mental health self-care. This is a research-based activity that enhances postpartum mental health while simultaneously promoting attachment security through building parents' ability to monitor and be sensitive to their children's cues, and thereby, actively involves in their children's mental and physical development.
CaCBT adopts 'here and now' problem-solving approach, which involves collaborating with families, active listening techniques, changing negative thinking, and depressive symptoms associated with postnatal depression and other forms of parenting distress.
TAU is the routine care currently available for the treatment of postnatal depression at the primary health care sites of intervention (e.g. antidepressants and other forms of mental health care).
Change in postnatal depression is being assessed
Primary outcome measure would be assessed using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
Time frame: Change is being assessed from baseline, end of intervention at 6 weeks and at 12 weeks post-intervention
Change in postnatal anxiety is being assessed
Primary outcome measure would be assessed using the Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD7) scale
Time frame: Change is being assessed from baseline, end of intervention at 6 weeks and at 12 weeks post-intervention
Change in health is being assessed
Primary outcome measure would be assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)
Time frame: Change is being assessed from baseline, end of intervention at 6 weeks and at 12 weeks post-intervention
Change in social support is being assessed
Primary outcome measures would be assessed using the Oslo Social Support Scale
Time frame: Change is being assessed from baseline, end of intervention at 6 weeks and at 12 weeks post-intervention
Change in health-related quality of life is being assessed
Outcome measure would be assessed using the Health-related Quality of Life scale (EuroQoL-5 Dimensions)
Time frame: Change is being assessed from baseline, end of intervention at 6 weeks and at 12 weeks post-intervention
Change in service satisfaction is being assessed
Outcome measure would be assessed using the brief Verona Service Satisfaction Scale
Time frame: Change is being assessed at end of intervention at 6 weeks and at 12 weeks post-intervention
Change in child physio-emotional development is being assessed
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Outcome measure would be assessed using the Ages and Stages Social-Emotional Questionnaire
Time frame: Change is being assessed from baseline, end of intervention at 6 weeks and at 12 weeks post-intervention
Change in parenting knowledge of child development is being assessed
Outcome measure would be assessed using the Knowledge of Expectation and Child Development Questionnaire
Time frame: Change is being assessed from baseline, end of intervention at 6 weeks and at 12 weeks post-intervention