Enjoy Your Bump : Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Pregnancy

University of Edinburgh

Status: Completed

Conditions: Antenatal Anxiety; Perinatal Mental Health; Antenatal Depression

Treatments: Device: Enjoy Your Bump

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03373734

AC17015

Details and patient eligibility

About

A feasibility study evaluating how acceptable women experiencing low mood or anxiety during their pregnancy find an online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy course called 'Enjoy Your Bump'. This project will also begin to explore the effectiveness of this programme as a low intensity self-help intervention for mild to moderate depressive symptoms during pregnancy.

Full description

'Enjoy Your Bump (EYB)' is an online life skills course based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) principles which has been designed to specifically support women in the antenatal period. A survey of women and health professionals has demonstrated that this is a resource that both groups find acceptable. The aim of this quasi-experimental feasibility study is to evaluate the user experience and efficacy of this online programme as a non-pharmacological, low intensity intervention for women experiencing mild-moderate depressive symptoms in pregnancy. This will be achieved by measuring depression and anxiety as well as measures of attachment to the developing baby, pre and post intervention. It is hoped the results from this study will help inform whether this is a resource that should be made more widely available to women in the National Health Service (NHS). It is hypothesised that the 'Enjoy Your Bump' will be an acceptable and effective intervention for women experiencing mild to moderate depressive symptoms in the antenatal period.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Singleton pregnancy
• Mild-moderate chronic perinatal mental health identified by a score of 2 or higher on PHQ-2 and/or GAD-2.
• 16+0 to 32+6 weeks at recruitment

Exclusion criteria

• Severe perinatal mental health problem such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, substance abuse/dependence, active risk of self-harm.
• Already receiving psychological therapy.
• Insufficient English language to engage with intervention or complete questionnaires.
• Unable to give informed consent.
• Illiterate
• No internet access
• Taking part in another current research project focused on mental health.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)