Program for Perinatal Mental Health Promotion and Work-Life Balance

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Anxiety; Mental Health - Anxiety; Postpartum depression; Child-mother attachment; Child emotional self-regulation; Mental Health - Depression; Postpartum blues; Child cognitive self-control; Postpartum bonding; Reproductive Health and Childbirth - Other reproductive health and childbirth disorders

• Registration Number: ACTRN12621001273875
• Lead Sponsor: Instituto de Saúde Ambiental, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2021-09-20
• Last Update Posted: 27 December 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 225

Inclusion Criteria

Native Portuguese speakers or women living in Portugal for at least 5 years; intended pregnancy; primiparous, singleton pregnant women at the gestational age of 28-30 weeks; aged 18-40 years; employed; with access to a smartphone; and have had understood and signed the project’s informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria

Pregnancy after infertility treatments; multiple pregnancy; episodes of obstetric emergencies; diagnosis of a) a serious mental disorder (e.g., schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, other psychotic disorders, bipolar and related disorders, personality disorders), b) a chronic disease resulting in functional impairment, or c) a neurodevelopmental disorder (e.g., autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disability); history of major depression; being under antidepressant medication; alcohol and/or drug addiction; high-risk pregnancy; and foetal malformations. In addition to these exclusion criteria, mother-child dyads will be excluded from the study (after enrolment) in case of preterm birth (less than 37 weeks of gestational age), very-low weight at birth (less than 1500 g) or unexpected newborn malformations.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified