The Momba Mobile Application-based Community (MOMBA)

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1

Treatments: Behavioral: MOMBA web-based application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01816945

1207010574

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 47 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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47 participants in 2 patient groups

Access to MOMBA web-based application

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: MOMBA web-based application

Smartphone only

No Intervention group

Description:

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.