African-American Social Support Effectiveness Treatment

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-08-27

Study Completion Date

2024-07-31

Brief Summary

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The objective of this treatment study is to develop and test an augmentation therapy in conjunction with maternal psychiatric treatment that targets the fathers' support of the mothers' mental health and contributions to the family environment to reduce maternal stress. The African-American Social Support Effectiveness Treatment-Partners alleviating Perinatal Depression (ASSET-PPD) intervention will be delivered to fathers in an individual setting to target the context in which a mother lives to expand her support beyond the direct reach of her treatment professional. This study provides skills and training to fathers who have a partner with prenatal depression. The aim is to reduce maternal depression during the perinatal period and improve the family environment for the infant.

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Detailed Description

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African-American (AA) mothers have a higher risk for perinatal depression than Caucasian women that is attributable to increased socio-environmental stressors. In addition, AA women have poor healthcare utilization and compliance with psychiatric treatment compared to Caucasian women. An intervention is required to supplement and support the clinical objectives of the mother's depression care without requiring the mother's direct involvement. Fathers are an underutilized resource to reduce the mother's environmental stress and encourage healthy maternal behaviors. The African-American Social Support Effectiveness Treatment- Partners alleviating Perinatal Depression (ASSET-PPD) protocol will target the fathers' support of the mothers' mental health treatment and their active engagement in the family to reduce maternal stress. The ASSET-PPD intervention will be designed to have 4 active modules that address key factors to reduce maternal stress during the prenatal period and 2 postpartum review sessions. The modules will be individual sessions constructed to provide training, information, and behavioral assignments to increase fathers': 1) prenatal and postpartum family involvement; 2) mental health psychoeducation; 3) interparental communication and relationship skills; and 4) balanced division of family tasks. ASSET-PPD will be evaluated in a pilot Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) with 50 cohabitating or non-cohabitating fathers and AA mothers who will be randomized into the ASSET-PPD intervention or the comparator group. Fathers only will participate in the intervention, and mothers and fathers will complete measures of mental health and parental experiences. Maternal depressive symptoms will be assessed as a primary outcome, and breastfeeding and parent-infant interactions will be assessed as secondary outcomes.

Conditions

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Maternal Perinatal Depression

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

We plan to enroll 50 parent dyads (100 individuals total, 25 romantic or non-romantic partners per arm). If we assume 5% attrition at each phase, we anticipate analyzable data for between 20-25 parent duos per arm.

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

At 3- and 6-months postpartum, mothers and fathers will attend an observation that includes a 5-minute free play with their infant separately and a 5-minute free play together as co-parents. Parent-infant interactions will be videotaped and interaction quality will be coded by a blind evaluator.

Study Groups

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ASSET-PPD intervention group

25 parent dyads with a mother who is receiving individual treatment outside of the study and the father is receiving the ASSET-PPD training

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

African-American Social Support Effectiveness Treatment-Partners alleviating Perinatal Depression (ASSET-PPD)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

This proposed novel intervention has four prenatal modules and two postpartum review sessions addressing key correlates of Perinatal Depression (PND) with the largest effect sizes by targeting fathers': 1) prenatal and postpartum family involvement; 2) mental health psychoeducation; 3) interparental communication and relationship skills; and 4) balanced division of family tasks. The intervention is based on the stress-generation and cognitive-behavior theories to frame skill-based individual sessions of didactics, interactive training, and trackable objectives.

No additional treatment group

25 parent dyads with a mother who is receiving individual treatment outside of the study and the father is not receiving the ASSET-PPD training

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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African-American Social Support Effectiveness Treatment-Partners alleviating Perinatal Depression (ASSET-PPD)

This proposed novel intervention has four prenatal modules and two postpartum review sessions addressing key correlates of Perinatal Depression (PND) with the largest effect sizes by targeting fathers': 1) prenatal and postpartum family involvement; 2) mental health psychoeducation; 3) interparental communication and relationship skills; and 4) balanced division of family tasks. The intervention is based on the stress-generation and cognitive-behavior theories to frame skill-based individual sessions of didactics, interactive training, and trackable objectives.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Parents will be 18 years of age or older.
* Parents are eligible for the study if the woman is in the 2nd trimester, she is receiving psychiatric treatment for depression with a score of 11 or greater on the Inventory of Depressive Symptoms-Self-Rated (IDS-SR16), which indicates clinically significant symptoms, and the mother is African-American
* Parents do not need to be romantic partners to be eligible. Infants (0-6 months) are included in the study to examine the parent-infant interactions

Exclusion Criteria

The parents will be excluded if:

* There is report of ongoing physical or sexual abuse
* They have plans to terminate the pregnancy
* The woman is showing symptoms of hypomania/mania, psychosis, or substance use in the past 12 months

Father will be excluded if he:

* Has symptoms of psychosis in the past 12 months
* Has below 6th grade education
* Has difficulty focusing on 1 hour of instruction

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No