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Parenting enhancement, interpersonal psychotherapy to reduce depression in low-income mothers of infants and toddlers: a randomized trial.
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- Parent-infant psychotherapy for improving parental and infant mental health.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Preliminary Effectiveness of Family Therapy for Perinatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From a Pilot Randomized Trial.Family process · 2025Trial
- A Mental Health Innovation for Nurse Home Visiting Program Shows Effectiveness in Reducing Depressive Symptoms and Anxiety.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Trial
- Improving the mother-infant relationship following postnatal depression: a randomised controlled trial of a brief intervention (HUGS).Archives of women's mental health · 2021Trial
- Randomized trial of promoting first relationships for new mothers who received community mental health services in pregnancy.Developmental psychology · 2021Trial
- Building Healthy Children: A preventive intervention for high-risk young families.Development and psychopathology · 2021Trial
- Lessons learned from a pilot randomized controlled trial of dyadic interpersonal psychotherapy for perinatal depression in a low-income population.Journal of affective disorders · 2020Trial
- A Toddler Parenting Intervention in Primary Care for Caregivers With Depression Symptoms.The journal of primary prevention · 2017Trial
- Perinatal Dyadic Psychotherapy for postpartum depression: a randomized controlled pilot trial.Archives of women's mental health · 2015Trial
- Components of Family-Focused Interventions that Have Common Impacts Across Parental Domestic Violence and Abuse, Mental Ill-Health, and Substance Misuse: An Intervention Components Analysis.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Article
- A scoping review of responsive caregiving in diverse populations and its association with child development.Early human development · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy in comparison to other psychological and pharmacological interventions for reducing depressive symptoms in women diagnosed with postpartum depression in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Review
- Healing Together: A Narrative Review on How Psychiatric Treatment for Parental Depression Impacts Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- A virtual mother-infant postpartum psychotherapy group for mothers with a history of adverse childhood experiences: open-label feasibility study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Advancing mental health equality: a mapping review of interventions, economic evaluations and barriers and facilitators.Systematic reviews · 2020Review
- PROTOCOL: Effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy in comparison to other psychological and pharmacological interventions for reducing depressive symptoms in women diagnosed with postpartum depression in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2020Article
- Mothers' Perspectives on Managing the Developmental Delay of a Child With Considerations for Contextual Influences and Maternal Functioning.Journal of family nursing · 2018Article
- The Mental Health Status and Intellectual Ability of Unwed Mothers Dwelling in Korean Shelter Homes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Longitudinal network structure of depression symptoms and self-efficacy in low-income mothers.PloS one · 2018Article
- What Is Being Measured? A Comparison of Two Depressive Symptom Severity Instruments with a Depression Diagnosis in Low-Income High-Risk Mothers.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundDepressive symptoms and clinical depression are highly prevalent in low-income mothers and negatively affect their infants and toddlers.
objectivesThe aim of this study was to test interpersonal psychotherapy combined with parenting enhancement on depressive symptoms and parenting behavior, compared with an equal attention-control condition.
methodsMothers (n = 226) of Early Head Start infants and toddlers from the southeastern and northeastern United States were randomized to the intervention delivered in-home by psychiatric mental health advanced practice nurses or an equal attention-control condition delivered by generalist nurses. Rigorous clinical depressive symptom and depression assessments and videotaped, coded mother-child interactions were used as baseline and 14-, 22-, and 26-week postintervention measures.
resultsBoth the intervention and control groups had significantly reduced Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression scores at each subsequent time point compared with baseline (p < .0001). However, only mothers receiving the intervention showed a significant increase in positive involvement with their child, as measured by closeness, positive effect, affection, and warm touch at T4 (t = 2.22, df = 156, p < .03). DISCUSSION: Both intervention and control conditions resulted in symptom reduction, but only the intervention mothers showed significant interaction changes with their child, an essential step in reducing the negative child outcomes associated with maternal depressive symptoms. Results suggest that a combination of generalist and specialist nurses could be used to treat depressive symptoms in these mothers. Further study with longer postintervention observation is needed to see if, over time, the intervention led to longer-lasting symptom reduction.
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