The Momba Mobile Application-based Community

NCT ID: NCT01816945

Last Updated: 2021-05-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 47 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2013-04-30
• Study Completion Date: 2015-09-30

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.

Conditions

Mental Health Wellness 1

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Access to 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.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

MOMBA web-based application

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Web-based, interactive, social network application.

Smartphone only

Study will provide the subject with a smartphone and pay the data plan. Weekly assessments are completed through internet survey links sent via text message.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

MOMBA web-based application

Web-based, interactive, social network application.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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.

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 45 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Yale University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Megan V Smith, DrPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Yale University

Locations

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

1207010574

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id