An effect of antenatal and postnatal maternal support programs on mental health and mother-infant attachment in comparison to standard care in pregnant women at risk for mental illness: A Randomised Controlled Trial.

Professor Louise Newman0 sites500 target enrollmentStarted: July 1, 2015Last updated: January 13, 2020

Conditions

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•*Have basic English literacy and communication skills to enable them to participate in the assessment and intervention processes;
•*Receiving antenatal care and booked to deliver at the Royal Women's Hospital
•*Up to 2nd trimester
•*Considered ‘at risk’, where 'at risk' includes women who have a current or past personal or family (first degree relatives only) history of any mental illness including symptoms of anxiety and depression, and/or have current psychosocial stressors (e.g., poor social support, unstable accommodation, intimate partner violence, contact with Department of Human Services Protective Services).

•*Acute psychosis
•*Uncontrolled drug abuse
•*A level of intellectual disability which will prevent the woman from understanding and communicating sufficiently to participate in the assessment and intervention processes
•*a known serious medical illness which will preclude participation
•*major depression requiring hospitalisation or precluding them from participating
•*Child removed from parental care (mother not primary attachment figure)
•*Already engaged in a parenting or meditative program that is therapeutic in nature

Sponsor

Professor Louise Newman