Mama Empoderada: Parenting and Mental Health Intervention

University of Michigan

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Parenting; Mental Health

Treatments: Behavioral: Mama Empoderada

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07569393

HUM00289106

20250010-00 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project focuses on the implementation and preliminary evaluation of Mama Empoderada, a brief 12-week group intervention that is based on a parenting program (Mom Power).

The researcher's hypotheses are that:

1. Participants will show high rates of fidelity, acceptability, and satisfaction with the intervention
2. Participants will experience decreases in depression, anxiety, isolation, parenting stress, and parent-child interaction problems from pre- to post-intervention, as well as increases in parenting sense of competence.

Full description

The study team is from the University of Michigan. The intervention will take place at La Casa Amiga in Pontiac, Michigan.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Identifies as a mother of a child ages 6 or younger;
2. Spanish-speaker;
3. available and interested in participating in an in-person or virtual maternal wellbeing and parenting group intervention at La Casa Amiga. Eligibility criteria will be confirmed by each participant through a brief online screening and a phone call with research staff.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants who are high risk for suicide based on Columbia Suicide Rating Scale

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Mama Empoderada

Experimental group

Description:

20 Spanish-speaking mothers of young children (i.e., ages 0 to 6). Given the population served by recruiting partners, it is expected that many of the women will experience economic oppression and racism/prejudice.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mama Empoderada