SynthesisArchives of women's mental health2021
The effects of psychological treatment of perinatal depression: an overview.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review of clinical psychological guidance for perinatal mental health.BMC psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of interventions to prevent perinatal depression: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analysis.General hospital psychiatryPooled it
- Bridges to treatment satisfaction: the roles of trauma, social support, race and ethnicity among perinatal women receiving behavioural activation therapy.BMC medicine · 2025Trial
- Optimizing Non-Pharmacological Support for Perinatal Mental Health: A Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis of Intervention Effects by Pregnancy/Postpartum Stage.Current psychiatry reports · 2026Review
- Change in psychosocial target processes during prenatal depression intervention: A randomized clinical trial.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Article
- Preferences for group psychological interventions on perinatal depression in China: a discrete choice experiment.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Navigating promise and perils: applying artificial intelligence to the perinatal mental health care cascade.npj health systems · 2025Review
- Prevalence and influencing factors of perinatal depression across different stages of pregnancy and postpartum: a cross-sectional study in China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Internet-assisted cognitive behavioral therapy with telephone coaching versus an educational control for antenatal depression: protocol for a randomized controlled trial with population-based screening.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Logistic regression analysis of risk factors for anxiety and depression in patients with coronary heart disease and subclinical hypothyroidism.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Prevalence of Perinatal Depression and Its Associated Risk Factors among Nepalese Women in Kathmandu, Nepal.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Risk Factors, Prognosis, Influence on the Offspring, and Genetic Architecture of Perinatal Depression Classified Based on the Depressive Symptom Trajectory.Depression and anxiety · 2024Article
- Effects of M-DEPTH Model of Depression Care on Maternal Functioning and Infant Developmental Outcomes in the Six Months Post Delivery: Results from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Women's reproductive health (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- Trial of a patient-directed eHealth program to ameliorate perinatal depression: the MomMoodBooster2 practical effectiveness study.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2023Article
- A qualitative study of the impact of peer support on women's mental health treatment experiences during the perinatal period.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- St. John's Wort usage in treating of perinatal depression.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Herba Rhodiolae alleviates depression via the BDNF/TrkB-GSK-3β signaling pathway.Annals of translational medicine · 2021Article
- Use and acceptability of Moodgym for postpartum depression in pediatric settings.General hospital psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
Perinatal depression is an important public health problem. Psychological interventions play an essential role in the treatment of depression. In the current paper, we will present the results of a series of meta-analyses on psychological treatments of perinatal depression. We report the results of a series of meta-analyses on psychological treatments of depression, including perinatal depression. The meta-analyses are based on a database of randomized trials on psychotherapies for depression that has been systematically developed and updated every year. Psychological interventions are effective in the treatment of perinatal depression with a moderate effect size of g = 0.67, corresponding with a NNT of about 4. These effects were still significant at 12 months after the start of the treatment. These interventions also have significant effects on social support, anxiety, functional impairment, parental stress, and marital stress. Possibly the effects are overestimated because of the use of waiting list control groups, the low quality of the majority of trials and publication bias. Research on psychotherapies for depression in general has shown that there are no significant differences between the major types of therapy, except for non-directive counseling that may have somewhat smaller effects. CBT can also be delivered in individual, group, telephone, and guided self-help format. Interventions in subthreshold depression are also effective and may prevent the onset of a full-blown depressive disorder, while therapies may be less effective in chronic depression. Psychological interventions are effective and deserve their place as first-line treatment of perinatal depression.
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