SynthesisArchives of women's mental health2021
Listening Visits for maternal depression: a meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Archives of women's mental health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Perinatal Mood, Anxiety, and Related Disorders: Guide de pratique 2024 du Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments pour le traitement des troubles de l'humeur, des troubles anxieux et des troubles connexes périnatals.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2025Guideline
- Preliminary Effectiveness of Family Therapy for Perinatal Depressive Symptoms: Results From a Pilot Randomized Trial.Family process · 2025Trial
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of Listening Visits for Mothers of Hospitalized Newborns.Nursing researchTrial
- The use of a nursing implementation framework to enhance the uptake of an evidence-based intervention.Worldviews on evidence-based nursing · 2024Article
- Pre-intervention child maltreatment risks, intervention engagement, and effects on child maltreatment risk within an RCT of MHealth and parenting intervention.Frontiers in digital health · 2023Article
- Receiving screened donor human milk for their infant supports parental wellbeing: a mixed-methods study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Depressive symptoms during pregnancy and after birth in women living in Sweden who received treatments for fear of birth.Archives of women's mental health · 2022Article
- Telehealth Listening Visits for emotionally distressed mothers of hospitalized newborns: Proof-of-concept.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- The Effect of Midwife-Based Listening Visit on Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Among Mothers of Premature Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Randomized Clinical Trial Study.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Listening Visits are a non-directive counseling intervention delivered by nurses to depressed postpartum women. In 2007, Listening Visits were listed as a recommended treatment in British national guidelines. They were removed from the guideline update, due to the small effect size drawn from a meta-analysis of five clinical trials with depressed and non-depressed postpartum women. The purpose of this meta-analysis is to provide an estimate of the true population effect of Listening Visits as a treatment for maternal depression compared to control conditions. A meta-analytic review was conducted of studies published before October 2020. Inclusion criteria required that the study was a pragmatic or randomized trial of Listening Visits delivered by non-mental health specialists to mothers with elevated symptoms of maternal depression. Post-treatment depression rates for the treatment and control groups were extracted from eligible studies. Six studies met eligibility criteria which included 703 participants. Analyses of observed effect sizes corrected for study artifacts revealed an estimate of 0.66 (95% CI: 0.32, 0.99) with high heterogeneity (Q = 17.95, p = 0.003, I
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