The Momba Mobile Application-based Community

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1
• Interventions: Behavioral: MOMBA web-based application

• Registration Number: NCT01816945
• Lead Sponsor: Yale University

Brief Summary

The investigators' mobile application-based community, termed Momba, will provide a bi-directional flow of information on maternal and infant mental health to traditionally underrepresented groups of mothers and their infants. The overall goal of this mobile application-based community of low-income postpartum women and infants is to increase the social support, social networks, and social capital of low-income mothers; thereby, leading to a positive change in the health behaviors, utilization of health services, and mental health status of both mothers and their infants.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2013-02-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-03-19
• Study First Posted: 2013-03-22
• Study Start: 2013-04
• Primary Completion: 2015-06
• Study Completion: 2015-09
• Results First Submitted: 2021-03-16
• Status Verified: 2021-04
• Results First Submitted QC: 2021-04-26
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-04-26
• Results First Posted: 2021-05-18
• Last Update Posted: 2021-05-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 47

Inclusion Criteria

• Women will be recruited in their third trimester of pregnancy from Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and followed for 8 months postpartum.
• Women are eligible if they are over the age of 18, in their third trimester of pregnancy, will deliver a baby at YNHH and receive prenatal care at the Women's Center.
• Meet criteria for minor or major depressive disorder.

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Exclusion Criteria

• Mothers are not eligible to participate if they have previously given birth
• Are placing the baby for adoption
• Are planning to move in the next 18 months
• Are actively suicidal, psychotic or unable to provide informed consent

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Access to MOMBA web-based application	MOMBA web-based application	Study will provide the subject with a smartphone, pay the data plan, and facilitate access to the web-based application for purposes of researching the acceptability of the application, the operating and functioning of it, and its impact on maternal mental health.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Test the Proper Operating and Functioning of the MOMBA Application	Baseline	To Test the proper operating and functioning of the MOMBA application, the number of participants that received training was assessed. Intervention subjects were trained (together) on the operating and functions (including how to use the privacy settings) of the Momba application and the phone. The control subjects were trained (together) on how to complete the control questionnaires and how to use the phone.
Phone Retention	15 months	To determine the potential feasibility of providing smartphones to participants and delivering and intervention through the smartphone, phone retention was measured. Phone retention was defined as the ability of participants to retain the phone over the study period. Outcome measure used was how many participants did not need a replacement phone during the study period.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Acceptability and Performance of Structured Questionnaires	12 months	To determine the acceptability and performance of structured questionnaires, the measurement is categorized into whether participants did or did not complete the 12 month follow-up interview.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Yale School of Medicine; 🇺🇸 New Haven, Connecticut, United States