Responding to the challenge of depression among pregnant adolescents

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Perinatal depression; Mental and Behavioural Disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN16775958
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Ibadan College of Medicine

Brief Summary

2020 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32106885/ protocol (added 09/12/2020) 2022 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35752215/ (added 27/06/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-04-30
• Study Completion: 2020-10-29
• Last Update Posted: 5 August 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 230

Inclusion Criteria

Patients must satisfy all of the following to be considered for study entry:
1. Adolescents aged less than 20 years
2. Must score 12 or more on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, a score that we have found to reliably identify persons meeting the criteria of DSM-V major depression of at least moderate intensity.
4. Fetal gestational age less than 36 weeks.
3. Provide signed informed consent (if less than 16 years of age, a parent or guardian must also provide signed consent).

Exclusion Criteria

1. Immediate need for medical attention.
2. Actively suicidal (a structured approach for identifying risk of suicide in those enrolled in the trial and for responding appropriately to it is being implemented).
3. Unlikely to be in the neighborhood in the following 6 months

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified