Happy Mother-Healthy Baby: An Anxiety-focused Early Prenatal Intervention (HMHB)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03880032 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : March 19, 2019
Results First Posted : February 15, 2024
Last Update Posted : February 15, 2024
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Postpartum Depression Small for Gestational Age at Delivery Preterm Birth Anxiety Birth Weight | Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention for Anxiety | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 1200 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Intervention Model Description: | Women with at least mild anxiety but not depression will be enrolled simultaneously into an intervention or an enhanced usual care group during pregnancy. Women in the intervention group will receive individual-based cognitive behavioral therapy. Women in the control group with receive enhanced usual care. |
Masking: | Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) |
Masking Description: | To maintain masking during the trial, intervention and assessment teams will not have any interaction during the trial, as they will be placed at separate locations within the Obstetrics Department of Holy Family Hospital (HFH). Furthermore, participants will be instructed not to disclose which type of treatment they are receiving to the assessment team. Fidelity of masking will be measured by having assessors guess the trial arm of each participant at the end of follow-up assessment. We hypothesize that assessors will only be able to correctly guess the condition of participants at a chance rate of nearly 50% at follow-up assessments, indicating that masking is maintained. |
Primary Purpose: | Prevention |
Official Title: | Happy Mother-Healthy Baby: An Anxiety-focused Early Prenatal Intervention for the Prevention of Common Mental Disorders in Pakistan |
Actual Study Start Date : | April 16, 2019 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | October 7, 2022 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | October 7, 2022 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention for Anxiety
Pregnant women experiencing anxiety randomized to the Happy Mother Healthy Baby (HMHB) intervention receive a CBT-based psychosocial intervention (with six core and up to six booster sessions). HMHB is a facility-based intervention delivered by non-specialist providers. It is aimed to raise psychosocial awareness and facilitate positive change inter personal wellbeing, social support, and bonding with their baby during pregnancy. It addresses with relapse prevention, planning for the baby's arrival, and in management of emotional challenges in the early postnatal period. Family member/s will be invited to attend 3 core sessions.
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Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention for Anxiety
Happy Mother Healthy Baby (HMHB) is a CBT-based psychosocial intervention for expectant women experiencing anxiety during their pregnancy. Strategies such as empathetic listening, thought challenging, behavior activation, problem management, take-home exercises, and family involvement are employed by HMHB. |
No Intervention: Enhanced Usual Care
Women randomized to the control group will receive enhanced usual care (EUC). The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends 8 antenatal visits for a positive pregnancy experience, the number of visits our EUC control group participants will receive (depending on their gestational week). Usual care will also be enhanced by hospital staff receiving additional training in mental health treatment and counseling. Reminder calls were given, provider visits were facilitated (shorter wait times), and transportation to assist participants in attending appointments and medically indicated ultrasounds were paid for (as in the intervention group).
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- Number of Participants With Combined Common Mental Disorders (CMDs, i.e. Anxiety and Depression). [ Time Frame: 6 weeks postpartum ]Data reported is the number of participants with Common Mental Disorders (CMDs), which is defined as a woman having either high anxiety or clinical depression at the time of follow-up. Both CMDs, anxiety was indicated by moderate to severe symptoms on the anxiety portion of the Hospital and Anxiety Scale (HADS). A cutoff of >10 was used as the threshold for moderate to severe levels of anxiety. A Major Depressive Episode (MDE) was measured with the Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (SCID), which is a semi-structured interview used to make major Axis I Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnoses. Its scoring will be based on case or non-case basis.
- Number of Preterm Births [ Time Frame: at birth ]Number of infants born with <37 weeks' gestation
- Small-for-gestational Age Birth [ Time Frame: at birth ]<10th% for gestational age at birth compared to the reference population
- Low Birthweight [ Time Frame: at birth ]weight of ≤2500 grams
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- ability to understand spoken Urdu
- pregnant, ≤22 weeks' gestation
- age ≥18 years
- residence ≤20 km of Holy Family Hospital
- intent to reside in the study areas until the completion of the study
- score ≥8 for anxiety on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Current major a depressive episode (MDE on SCID) or life-threatening health conditions including e.g. active severe depression or suicidal ideation
- Self-report of past or current significant learning disability
- Self-report of past or current psychiatric disorder (e.g. bipolar disorder or schizophrenia) or psychiatric care (e.g. current use of anxiolytic drug and/or other psychotropic drug)
- medical disorders or severe maternal morbidity that require inpatient management that would preclude participation (101)
- ICU admission indicated by diagnosis (not only for assessment)
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03880032
Pakistan | |
Holy Family Hospital | |
Rawalpindi, Pakistan |
Principal Investigator: | Pamela J. Surkan, PhD | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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Responsible Party: | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT03880032 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
R01MH111859-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) |
First Posted: | March 19, 2019 Key Record Dates |
Results First Posted: | February 15, 2024 |
Last Update Posted: | February 15, 2024 |
Last Verified: | February 2024 |
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: | |
Plan to Share IPD: | Yes |
Plan Description: | De-identified project data from the study will be posted on ClinicalTrials.gov and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) data archive. |
Supporting Materials: |
Study Protocol Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) Informed Consent Form (ICF) |
Time Frame: | The study protocol and statistical analysis plan (SAP) have been shared in the study protocol paper published in BMJ Open (PMID: 32300002; PMCID: PMC7200036). The Informed Consent Forms (ICF) have been published accessed and as the Supplementary Material associated with that article. |
Access Criteria: | There is a link to the Informed Consent Forms (ICF) on the open access website for our protocol paper. Please see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7200036/ |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |
anxiety depression birth outcomes |
Premature Birth Depression, Postpartum Birth Weight Depression Anxiety Disorders Behavioral Symptoms Depressive Disorder Mood Disorders |
Mental Disorders Body Weight Obstetric Labor, Premature Obstetric Labor Complications Pregnancy Complications Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications Urogenital Diseases Puerperal Disorders |