Perinatal Interpersonal Psychotherapy Group for Distressed Women

Chung Shan Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depression, Postpartum; Social Adjustment

Treatments: Other: interpersonal group psychotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06431672

MOST 107-2410-H-040-005 -SSS (Other Grant/Funding Number)

MOST 106-2410-H-040-004 -SSS

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is the first perinatal interpersonal psychotherapy group (P-IPTG) implemented for distressed women from pregnancy to postpartum. The feasibility and effects of P-IPTG are explored.

Full description

This is the first perinatal interpersonal psychotherapy group (P-IPTG) implemented for distressed women from pregnancy to postpartum. The feasibility and effects of P-IPTG are explored. The third-trimester women were recruited as intervention and control group participants by a quasi-experimental design.

Enrollment: 258 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• women in the third trimester of pregnancy, at least 20 years old, able to read and write in Chinese, and "depressed, anxious, or wishing to improve family relationships."

Exclusion criteria

• women with schizophrenia, substance use, or suicide risk.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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258 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention was an eight-session P-IPTG, which consisted of four sessions in pregnancy and four in postpartum. All participants replied to the measures at four waves from baseline to one year postpartum. The outcome variables were within-group and between-group changes in depression, social support, dyadic adjustment, interpersonal relationship satisfaction, and mother-infant bonding.

Treatment:

Other: interpersonal group psychotherapy

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants of control group reply questionnaires for four times.