A Novel Web-based Positive Psychology Intervention Addressed to Pregnant Women
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 164
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Changes in Mental well-being
研究概览
简要总结
The identification and treatment of the disorders connected to the perinatal period has traditionally catalyzed the researchers' attention. Nevertheless, since the World Health Organization has recently coined the concept of positive pregnancy experience, which includes not only treatment of diseases, but also health education, and health promotion, research on antenatal care has expanded to a salutogenic perspective. In the wake of this perspective, a growing number of research have been examining the potential benefits of positive aspects and protective factors on maternal prenatal well-bein. This salutogenic perspective is supported by the emerging field of Positive Psychology. Evidence from Positive Psychology studies has shown that it is possible to build and enhance personal strengths, sense of meaning and positive feelings by practicing some brief positive exercises, called Positive Psychology Interventions (PPIs). Recently, researchers have started to investigate the effects of a PPI on women's prenatal well-being, reporting promising findings in terms of potential direct effects of the positive intervention on women's prenatal stress in comparison to a treatment-as-usual control condition. In the past decade, many web-based delivered interventions have been designed and documented to be effective for the promotion of mental health and for the prevention and treatment of different disorders. Indeed, recent systematic reviews provides preliminary evidence that web-based interventions can be a promising and advisable form of intervention during the perinatal period. PPIs have been translated also in the online format. Preliminary evidence suggests that online positive psychology interventions can effectively enhance well-being and reduce depressive symptoms.
The research team have developed the protocol for a web-based positive psychology programme addressed to promote and enhance women's prenatal well-being. This intervention programme will last five weeks and will be completely self-administered. It is intend to study the effect of the intervention on levels of mental well-being, depression, pregnancy related anxiety and other relevant variables, and the results will be compared to a waiting list control group.
详细描述
Objective
The aim of this study is to examine the effectiveness of a positive psychology online-based intervention on indices of prenatal wellbeing. Hypotheses: Specifically, the primary hypothesis is that women that would participate to the intervention would report higher levels of mental well-being comparing to the ones reported by women assigned to the control group (i.e., waiting list, WL). Secondly, it is expected that women that would be involve in the positive intervention would report higher levels of positive affect, perceived social support, positive future thinking, and self-acceptance, comparing to the ones reported by the WL group. Moreover it is expected that participants assigned to the intervention condition would report lower levels of negative affect, depression symptoms, pregnancy related anxiety and negative future thinking, comparing to the ones reported by the WL group.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 11 Years 至 45 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •being pregnant
- •have regular access to Internet
- •decided to be the mother of the baby
- •Spanish-speaker
排除标准
- 未提供
研究组 & 干预措施
Positive Psychology Internet-based Intervention condition
Internet-based positive psychology training
干预措施: "Embarazo y Bienestar" (Other)
Waiting List condition
Waiting List control condition
结局指标
主要结局
Changes in Mental well-being
时间窗: Baseline, post- training (5-weeks) and at follow-up (5-weeks after post-training)
Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS; Tennant et al., 2007)
次要结局
- Changes in Pregnancy related anxiety(Baseline, post- training (5-weeks) and at follow-up (5-weeks after post-training))
- Changes in Satisfaction with life(Baseline, post- training (5-weeks) and at follow-up (5-weeks after post-training))
- Changes in Depression(Baseline, post- training (5-weeks) and at follow-up (5-weeks after post-training))
- Changes in Affect(Baseline, post- training (5-weeks) and at follow-up (5-weeks after post-training))
- Changes in Social support(Baseline, post- training (5-weeks) and at follow-up (5-weeks after post-training))
- Changes in Future directed thinking(Baseline, post- training (5-weeks) and at follow-up (5-weeks after post-training))
- Changes in Psychological well-being(Baseline, post- training (5-weeks) and at follow-up (5-weeks after post-training))
- Changes in Self-compassion(Baseline, post- training (5-weeks) and at follow-up (5-weeks after post-training))
研究者
Rosa María Baños Rivera
PhD
University of Valencia