Universal Screening for Maternal Depression With the CHICA System

Indiana University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Maternal Depression

Treatments: Other: CHICA maternal depression PSF; Other: Control; Other: CHICA PSF plus JIT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01238614

K22LM009160 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

MLM-CHICA-K-MD

Details and patient eligibility

About

The CHICA system is a clinical decision support system that uses adaptive turnaround documents to provide point-of-care information to clinicians. We will be studying whether it can help in the diagnosis and referral of mothers with maternal depression.

Enrollment: 3,250 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All families of patients age 0 to 15 months

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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3,250 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

PSF-JIT

Experimental group

Description:

Mothers in this arm receive prescreening questions and clinicians receive just-in-time handouts to aid in diagnosis.

Treatment:

Other: CHICA PSF plus JIT

PSF

Experimental group

Description:

Mothers in this arm receive screening questions on the prescreener form

Treatment:

Other: CHICA maternal depression PSF

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Mothers in this arm receive no maternal depression CHICA additional care

Treatment:

Other: Control