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Starting Before Birth to Prevent Maternal Mental Health Problems: "Parents and Babies" Program (Programme "Toi, Moi, Bébé")
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Telephone support for Depression, Postpartum. Completed, enrolled 510 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Women's perinatal mental health problems can create a cascade of short- and long-term negative influences for the mother, child, and the family as a whole. To prevent these impacts, preventive online and telephone interventions exist, but need to be tested and improved to develop this type of support to women in Quebec. The Parents \& Babies program, which is a distance learning course, followed during pregnancy and accompanied by telephone follow-up, aims to improve the mental health of future parents.The investigators seek to evaluate the effect of the intervention of the Parents \& Babies program offered with telephone support compared to the course offered without telephone follow-up.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Participants will receive 10 telephone counseling calls by trained coaches: 9 during pregnancy (one call/week) and 1 at 6 weeks postpartum. We have included individual telephone calls by a trained coaches aimed to : 1. encourage the use of online material; 2. identify strategies for overcoming obstacles; 3. help apply content to real-life settings; and 4. underscore the participants' success in using effective coping strategies