Title |
Early intervention to protect the mother-infant relationship following postnatal depression: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
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Published in |
Trials, October 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1745-6215-15-385 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Jeannette Milgrom, Charlene Holt |
Abstract |
At least 13% of mothers experience depression in the first postnatal year, with accompanying feelings of despair and a range of debilitating symptoms. Serious sequelae include disturbances in the mother-infant relationship and poor long-term cognitive and behavioural outcomes for the child. Surprisingly, treatment of maternal symptoms of postnatal depression does not improve the mother-infant relationship for a majority of women. Targeted interventions to improve the mother-infant relationship following postnatal depression are scarce and, of those that exist, the majority are not evaluated in randomised controlled trials. This study aims to evaluate a brief targeted mother-infant intervention, to follow cognitive behavioural therapy treatment of postnatal depression, which has the potential to improve developmental outcomes of children of depressed mothers. |
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