The Development of PATH, a Program to Support NICU Parent Mental Health Through the Transition From Hospital to Home
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Recruiting
- Enrollment
- 72
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Mental health self-efficacy scale
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The objective of this study is to develop and pilot test a telehealth-based mental health screening and engagement program that supports parents as their infants transition home from the NICU. The program will use a stepped-care approach to screen parents for depression, anxiety, and PTSD; provide a brief behavioral intervention to those who screen as having at least a low risk of these conditions; and provide a warm hand-off to community mental health services for those at medium to high risk.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Health Services Research
- Masking
- None (Investigator)
Eligibility Criteria
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •NICU parents: Participants will be parents of currently hospitalized preterm infants from either the OHSU NICU or the UCH NICU. We will include parents of live preterm infants who have been admitted in the NICU for at least 2 weeks. Parents must speak English or Spanish. Parents can be of any age.
- •NICU stakeholders: Participants will be stakeholders from either the OHSU NICU or the UCH NICU. Stakeholders will be social workers, mental health providers responsible for providing more intensive mental health support for NICU parents, nurses, neonatologists, and hospital administrators.
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Arms & Interventions
Intervention
anticipatory guidance, brief behavioral intervention, or referral to community mental health provider
Intervention: Behavioral Treatment (Behavioral)
Control
usual care
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Mental health self-efficacy scale
Time Frame: ~2 weeks prior to discharge; 2 weeks post-discharge; 6 weeks post-discharge
Mental health self-efficacy
Secondary Outcomes
- City Mental Illness Stigma Scale(~2 weeks prior to discharge; 2 weeks post-discharge; 6 weeks post-discharge)
- Parenting Sense of Self Confidence Scale(~2 weeks prior to discharge; 2 weeks post-discharge; 6 weeks post-discharge)