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ArticleInternet interventions2015

Online prevention of postpartum depression for Spanish- and English-speaking pregnant women: A pilot randomized controlled trial.

Alinne Z Barrera, Robert E Wickham, Ricardo F Muñoz

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Article in Internet interventions, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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72citing papers in PubMed, 13 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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72 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 157 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alinne Z BarreraPalo Alto University, Palo Alto, California, USA ; Institute for International Internet Interventions for Health (i4Health), Palo Alto, California, USA.
Robert E WickhamPalo Alto University, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Ricardo F MuñozPalo Alto University, Palo Alto, California, USA ; Institute for International Internet Interventions for Health (i4Health), Palo Alto, California, USA.
Palo Alto University · US

Funding

Using the Internet Randomized Trials for Post-Partum DepressionF32MH077371 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BARRERA, ALINNE Z · 2006 to 2009
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NIMH NIH HHS F32 MH077371
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPostpartum depression (PPD) is a maternal mental health problem that affects women from all regions of the world. Unfortunately, even in developed countries, half of the cases go undetected and, consequently, untreated. Individuals from low and middle income countries trend toward underutilization of mental health services, partly due to the limited number of available psychological resources. The primary aims of this pilot randomized controlled trial were to adapt to the Internet the Mothers and Babies Course/

methodsPregnant women, 18 years or older who were interested in using the site for themselves were recruited and randomly assigned to a fully-automated self-help Internet intervention or to an information-only control condition. Randomized participants were invited to complete monthly depression assessments up to six months postpartum. To examine the prevention effects of the Internet intervention, pregnant women who did not meet current criteria for a major depressive episode, who engaged with the study website, and who provided depression data during the postpartum follow-up period were included in the study analyses.

resultsParticipants were 111 predominantly Spanish-speaking (82.9%) and Latino/Hispanic (71.3%) pregnant women residing in 23 countries worldwide. The effect of the prevention intervention condition failed to reach significance at the a priori alpha-level. However, the observed coefficient trended in the hypothesized direction (

conclusionsThis study provides preliminary evidence that Internet interventions are a promising method toward expanding the reach of psychological resources to perinatal women at-risk for PPD.

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global mental healthInternet interventionPostpartum depressionpreventionSpanish-speakingwomen

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PMID26273567
PMCPMC4530522
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