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Center for Achieving and Sustaining Improved Health in Harlem: Patient Education to Reduce Postpartum Depressive Symptoms Among Minority Women
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Behavioral education intervention for Postpartum Depression. Completed, enrolled 540 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Postpartum depressive symptoms are a major health problem that affects hundreds of women annually. The investgators propose to test an intervention to reduce postpartum depressive symptoms and prevent elevated levels of depressive symptoms in postpartum mothers by preparing and educating women about specific situational triggers of depressive symptoms, by bolstering personal and social resources, by enhancing self-management skills to buffer postpartum demands, and by increasing access to existing healthcare and community resources available to postpartum mothers.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
One education session with a social worker while at the hospital, provision of an educational pamphlet and summary sheet for partner, a needs assessment by the social worker 2 weeks after hospital discharge, and additional patient education and reinforcement of self-management skills, as needed